Sirach 22:5-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵An impudent daughter disgraces father and husband,
and is despised by both.
⁶Like music in time of mourning is ill-timed conversation,
but a thrashing and discipline are at all times wisdom.^[a]

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Sirach 22:6 Other ancient authorities add ⁷Children who are brought up in a good life conceal the lowly birth of their parents. ⁸Children who are disdainfully and boorishly haughty stain the nobility of their kindred.

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