Ben Sira 2:12-14

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¹²Woe to timid hearts and drooping hands,^[a]
    to the sinner who walks a double path!
¹³Woe to the faint of heart! For they do not trust,
    and therefore have no shelter!
¹⁴Woe to you that have lost hope!
    what will you do at the Lord’s visitation?

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Footnotes

2:12–18 A stern warning to those who compromise their faith in time of affliction; they fail in courage and trust and therefore have no security (vv. 12–14). But those who fear the Lord through obedience, reverence, love, and humility find his “mercy equal to his majesty” (vv. 15–18).

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