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24 The city will complain of the one who is niggardly with food,
    and their testimony to his niggardliness is accurate.

Temperance in Drinking Wine

25 Do not aim to be valiant over wine,
    for wine has destroyed many.
26 Fire and water prove[a] the temper of steel,
    so wine tests hearts in the strife of the proud.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 31:26 Gk The furnace by dipping proves

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