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Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 5

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1 Don’t set your heart upon your goods.

2 Don’t follow your own mind and your strength

3 Don’t say, “Who will have dominion over me?”

4 Don’t say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?”

5 Don’t be so confident of atonement

6 Don’t say, “His compassion is great.

7 Don’t wait to turn to the Lord.

8 Don’t set your heart upon unrighteous gains,

9 Don’t winnow with every wind.

10 Be steadfast in your understanding.

11 Be swift to hear

12 If you have understanding, answer your neighbour;

13 Glory and dishonour is in talk.

14 Don’t be called a whisperer.

15 Don’t be ignorant in a great or small matter.