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14 Remember your father and mother
    when[a] you sit among great men;
lest you be forgetful in their presence,
    and be deemed a fool on account of your habits;
then you will wish that you had never been born,
    and you will curse the day of your birth.
15 A man accustomed to use insulting words
    will never become disciplined all his days.

Concerning Sexual Sins

16 Two sorts of men multiply sins,
    and a third incurs wrath.
The soul heated like a burning fire
    will not be quenched until it is consumed;
a man who commits fornication with his near of kin[b]
    will never cease until the fire burns him up.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 23:14 Gk for
  2. Sirach 23:16 Gk in the body of his flesh

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