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24 The city complains of someone who is stingy with food,
    and their testimony to his stinginess is accurate.

Temperance in Drinking Wine

25 Do not try to prove your strength by wine-drinking,
    for wine has destroyed many.
26 As the furnace tests the work of the smith,[a]
    so wine tests hearts when the insolent quarrel.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 31:26 Heb: Gk tests the hardening of steel by dipping

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