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Sirach 11:31-35 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

31. You should not bring every man into your house. For many are the snares of the deceitful.

32. For as a stomach with a bad smell vomits, and as a partridge is led into a cage, and like a deer led into a snare, so also is the heart of the arrogant. And it is like a bystander watching his neighbor fall.

33. For it lies in ambush, and then turns good into evil, and it will place the blame on the elect.

34. From one spark, a great fire grows; and from one deceitful man, much blood flows. But a very sinful man lies in ambush for blood.

35. Pay close attention to yourself before a harmful man, for he fabricates evils. Otherwise, he may lead over you a whispered reproach unceasingly.

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