Sirach 27:1–9
1Many have sinned for profit. He who seeks to multiply wealth will turn his eye away.↗
2As a nail will stick fast between the joinings of stones, so sin will thrust itself in between buying and selling.↗
3Unless a person holds on diligently to the fear of the Lord, his house will be overthrown quickly.↗
4In the shaking of a sieve, the refuse remains, so does the filth of man in his thoughts.↗
5The furnace tests the potter’s vessels; so the test of a person is in his thoughts.↗
6The fruit of a tree discloses its cultivation, so is the utterance of the thought of a person’s heart.↗
7Praise no man before you hear his thoughts, for this is how people are tested.↗
8If you follow righteousness, you will obtain it, and put it on like a long robe of glory.↗
9Birds will return to their own kind, so truth will return to those who practice it.↗
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