Sirach 27:19–27
19As a bird which you have released out of your hand, so you have let your neighbor go, and you will not catch him again.↗
20Don’t pursue him, for he has gone far away, and has escaped like a gazelle out of the snare.↗
21For a wound may be bound up, and after abuse there may be reconciliation; but he who reveals secrets is without hope.↗
22One who winks the eye contrives evil things; and those who know him will keep their distance.↗
23When you are present, he will speak sweetly, and will admire your words; but afterward he will twist his speech and set a trap in your words.↗
24I have hated many things, but nothing like him. The Lord will hate him.↗
25One who casts a stone straight up casts it on his own head. A deceitful blow opens wounds.↗
26He who digs a pit will fall into it. He who sets a snare will be caught in it.↗
27He who does evil things, they will roll back upon him, and he will not know where they came from.↗
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