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Value Yourself at Your True Worth[a]

26 Do not flaunt your wisdom in doing your work,
    and do not put on airs when you are in need.
27 Better the diligent worker who has plenty of everything
    than one who boasts on an empty stomach.
28 My child, in the practice of humility do not neglect your self-respect;
    value yourself at your true worth.

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom of Ben Sira 10:26 To be true and humble does not consist in cultivating sentiments of inferiority but in accepting what one really is.