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11 Don’t consult with a woman
about her rival,
        or with the cowardly about war;
    or with a merchant about business,
        or with a buyer about a sale;
    or with a slanderer about gratitude,
        or with the unmerciful about kindness;
    or with the idle about anything
    involving work,
        or with an annual laborer about
        finishing a job;
    or with a lazy household slave
    about a large task.
    Don’t look to these persons
    for any advice.
12 Consult[a] instead with a godly person
    whom you know
    keeps the commandments,
    who thinks the same way you do
    and will empathize with you if you fail.
13 Listen carefully to what
your own heart tells you,
    since nothing is more faithful
    to you than it.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 37:12 LXX persevere

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