Sirach 37:17-19

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷As a clue to changes of heart
¹⁸    four turns of fortune appear,
good and evil, life and death;
    and it is the tongue that continually rules them.
¹⁹A man may be shrewd and the teacher of many,
    and yet be unprofitable to himself.

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