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13 Honor and dishonor come from speaking,
    and the tongue of mortals may be their downfall.
14 Do not be called double-tongued[a]
    and do not lay traps with your tongue;
for shame comes to the thief,
    and severe condemnation to the double-tongued.
15 In great and small matters cause no harm,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 5:14 Heb: Gk a slanderer
  2. Sirach 5:15 Heb Syr: Gk be ignorant

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