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24 Riches are good if they are free from sin;
    poverty is evil only in the opinion of the ungodly.

25 The heart changes the countenance,
    either for good or for evil.[a]
26 The sign of a happy heart is a cheerful face,
    but to devise proverbs requires painful thinking.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 13:25 Other ancient authorities add and a glad heart makes a cheerful countenance

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