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Sirach 20:12-14
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12 Some buy much for little
    but pay for it seven times over.
13 The wise make themselves beloved by only few words,[a]
    but the courtesies of fools are wasted.(A)
14 A fool’s gift will profit you nothing,[b]
    for he looks for recompense sevenfold.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 20.13 Heb: Gk by words
  2. 20.14 Other ancient authorities add so it is with the envious who give under compulsion
  3. 20.14 Syr: Gk he has many eyes instead of one
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