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Trades and Crafts

24 The wisdom of the scribe depends on the opportunity of leisure;
    and he who has little business may become wise.
25 How can he become wise who handles the plow,
    and who glories in the shaft of a goad,
who drives oxen and is occupied with their work,
    and whose talk is about[a] bulls?

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  1. Sirach 38:25 Or among

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