OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 4:30

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30

Don’t be like a lion in your house, or suspicious of your servants.

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Verse 30. Lie. Greek “of thy want of information.” Yet Grabe and the Comp. edit. have lie, and so forth Bible.—Always yield to the truth, ( Calmet.) and never tell a lie, but speak the truth at proper times. Worthington.

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