OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 23:14

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14

Remember your father and your mother, for you sit in the midst of great men, that you be not forgetful before them, and become a fool by your bad habit; so you may wish that you had not been born, and curse the day of your birth.

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Verse 14. In vain. Without a design to execute, (Grot.) or through levity, or rather falsely. Exodus 23:1. Deuteronomy 5:11.

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