Sirach 33:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁶Set your slave to work, and you will find rest;
leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.
²⁷Yoke and thong will bow the neck,
and for a wicked slave there are racks and tortures.
²⁸Put him to work, in order that he may not be idle,

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