OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 13:19

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Wild donkeys are the prey of lions in the wilderness; likewise poor men are feeding grounds for the rich.

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Verse 19. Himself. Similarity of manners and of condition is favourable to friendship. Calmet.—The good and bad cannot be friends, their manners are so different. Cic.

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