OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 10:18

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18

Pride has not been created for men, nor wrathful anger for the offspring of women.

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Verse 18. Nations, the Chanaanites, who submitted to the yoke: or rather the Hebrews. Calmet.—Greek “instead of them.”

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