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Sirach 2:2-5 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

2. Humble your heart, and persevere. Incline your ear, and accept words of understanding. And you should not hurry away in the time of distress.

3. Endure steadfastly for God. Join yourself to God, and persevere, so that your life may increase in the very end.

4. Accept everything that will happened to you, and persevere in your sorrow, and have patience in your humiliation.

5. For gold and silver are tested in fire, yet truly, acceptable men are tested in the furnace of humiliation.

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