# Sirach · 20

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## Verses

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**Latin**

Quam bonum est arguere, quam irasci,
et confitentem in oratione non prohibere !

**English**

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**Latin**

Concupiscentia spadonis devirginabit juvenculam :

**English**

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**Latin**

sic qui facit per vim judicium iniquum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Quam bonum est correptum manifestare pœnitentiam !
sic enim effugies voluntarium peccatum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Est tacens qui invenitur sapiens :
et est odibilis qui procax est ad loquendum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Est tacens non habens sensum loquelæ :
et est tacens sciens tempus aptum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Homo sapiens tacebit usque ad tempus :
lascivus autem et imprudens non servabunt tempus.

**English**

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**Latin**

Qui multis utitur verbis lædet animam suam :
et qui potestatem sibi sumit injuste, odietur.

**English**

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**Latin**

Est processio in malis viro indisciplinato,
et est inventio in detrimentum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Est datum quod non est utile,
et est datum cujus retributio duplex.

**English**

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**Latin**

Est propter gloriam minoratio,
et est qui ab humilitate levabit caput.

**English**

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**Latin**

Est qui multa redimat modico pretio,
et restituens ea in septuplum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Sapiens in verbis seipsum amabilem facit :
gratiæ autem fatuorum effundentur.

**English**

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**Latin**

Datus insipientis non erit utilis tibi :
oculi enim illius septemplices sunt.

**English**

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**Latin**

Exigua dabit, et multa improperabit :
et apertio oris illius inflammatio est.

**English**

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**Latin**

Hodie fœneratur quis, et cras expetit :
odibilis est homo hujusmodi.

**English**

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**Latin**

Fatuo non erit amicus,
et non erit gratia bonis illius :

**English**

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**Latin**

qui enim edunt panem illius, falsæ linguæ sunt.
Quoties et quanti irridebunt eum !

**English**

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**Latin**

neque enim quod habendum erat directo sensu distribuit ;
similiter et quod non erat habendum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Lapsus falsæ linguæ quasi qui in pavimento cadens :
sic casus malorum festinanter veniet.

**English**

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**Latin**

Homo acharis quasi fabula vana,
in ore indisciplinatorum assidua erit.

**English**

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**Latin**

Ex ore fatui reprobabitur parabola :
non enim dicit illam in tempore suo.

**English**

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**Latin**

Est qui vetatur peccare præ inopia,
et in requie sua stimulabitur.

**English**

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**Latin**

Est qui perdet animam suam præ confusione,
et ab imprudenti persona perdet eam :
personæ autem acceptione perdet se.

**English**

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**Latin**

Est qui præ confusione promittit amico,
et lucratus est eum inimicum gratis.

**English**

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**Latin**

Opprobrium nequam in homine mendacium :
et in ore indisciplinatorum assidue erit.

**English**

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**Latin**

Potior fur quam assiduitas viri mendacis :
perditionem autem ambo hæreditabunt.

**English**

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**Latin**

Mores hominum mendacium sine honore,
et confusio illorum cum ipsis sine intermissione.

**English**

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**Latin**

Sapiens in verbis producet seipsum,
et homo prudens placebit magnatis.

**English**

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**Latin**

Qui operatur terram suam inaltabit acervum frugum,
et qui operatur justitiam, ipse exaltabitur :
qui vero placet magnatis effugiet iniquitatem.

**English**

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**Latin**

Xenia et dona excæcant oculos judicum,
et quasi mutus, in ore avertit correptiones eorum.

**English**

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**Latin**

Sapientia absconsa, et thesaurus invisus,
quæ utilitas in utrisque ?

**English**

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**Latin**

Melior est qui celat insipientiam suam,
quam homo qui abscondit sapientiam suam.

**English**

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