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Ecclesiastes 7:22-25 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

22. So then, do not attach your heart to every word that is spoken, lest perhaps you may hear your servant speaking ill of you.

23. For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.

24. I have tested everything in wisdom. I have said: "I will be wise." And wisdom withdrew farther from me,

25. so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?

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