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Sirach 19:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Sirach 19:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 Having heard something, the fool suffers birth pangs
like a woman in labor with a child.
12 Like an arrow stuck in a person’s thigh,
so is gossip in the belly of a fool.(A)
13 Question a friend; perhaps he did not do it;
or if he did, so that he may not do it again.(B)
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