OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 11:8

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Don’t answer before you have heard. Don’t interrupt while someone else is speaking.

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Verse 8. Discourse. This is a mark of impertinence. Proverbs 18:13. Calmet.—Let others finish their sentence, and wait if there be any elder or better informed to speak. Worthington.

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