OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 29:20

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Help your neighbor according to your power, and be careful not to fall yourself.

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Verse 20. And. Greek “will turn away the goods of his surety, (21) and the ungrateful in mind will abandon his redeemer.” Bible.—“All hate the ungrateful,” (Cic. off. ii.) and the Persians punished such with death. Xenop. Cyr. i.—Him. Greek subjoins verse 23. Bible.

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