OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 23:2

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Who will set scourges over my thought, and a discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not for my errors, and not overlook their sins?

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Verse 2. Ignorances, and so forth That is, that the scourges and discipline of wisdom may restrain the ignorances, that is, the slips and offences which are usually committed by the tongue and the lips. Challoner.—The tongue is a restless evil. Jam. 3:8.

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