OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 6:2

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Don’t exalt yourself in the counsel of your soul, that your soul not be torn in pieces like a bull.

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Verse 2. Extol. This conduct is inimical to true friendship, which requires that we should make allowance for one another’s faults. Calmet.—Like. Greek “lest thy soul be torn away like a bull. Thou wilt eat,” and so forth Bible.—Vulg. is better. Calmet.

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