OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 6:35

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35

Be willing to listen to every godly discourse. Don’t let the proverbs of understanding escape you.

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Verse 35. Wise. Lit. “prudent.” The Latin has this epithet, because old people are not always such, though it may be expected of them. Calmet.—“While wisdom increases, all other faculties decrease.” Saint Jerome ad Nepot.

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