OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 23:1

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O Lord, Father and Master of my life, don’t abandon me to their counsel. Don’t let me fall because of them.

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Verse 1. By them. that is the tongue and the lips, mentioned in the last verse of the foregoing chapter. Challoner.—We cannot resist of ourselves, and must therefore pray to God. Worthington.—We have need of a good master to correct our eagerness in speaking. Calmet.

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