OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 31:1

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Wakefulness that comes from riches consumes the flesh, and anxiety about it takes away sleep.

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Verse 1. Riches. Lit. “honesty” has this sense. Bible.—The study of virtue and of the Scriptures removes temptations of the flesh. Saint Jerome ad Rust. Worthington.

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