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Sirach 25:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Sirach 25:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 I can think of nine whom I would call happy,
and a tenth my tongue proclaims:
a man who can rejoice in his children,
who lives to see the downfall of his foes.(A)
8 Happy the man who lives with a sensible wife
and who does not plow with ox and ass together,[a]
who does not slip with the tongue
and who has not become enslaved to an inferior.(B)
9 Happy is the one who finds good sense
and the one who speaks to attentive listeners.(C)
Footnotes
- 25.8 Heb Syr: Gk lacks and the one who does not plow with ox and ass together
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