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Ecclesiasticus 27:1-7 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. THROUGH poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.

2. As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.

3. Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.

4. Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown.

5. As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts.

6. The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of affliction just men.

7. Be the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart of man.

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