OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 30:11

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Give him no liberty in his youth, and don’t ignore his follies.

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Verse 11. Devices. Greek “sins of ignorance.” Youth is incapable of guiding itself, being destitute of experience, and too confident. Ezek. 45:20.

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This line and the previous two lines are absent from some older MSS.

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