Sirach Chapter 6. 7 if you want to gain a friend, get him in a time of testing, and don’t be in a hurry to trust him. Lest like fire it consume your strength.
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Lest like fire it consume your strength. 3 it will eat your leaves and destroy your fruits, and you will be left like a dry tree. He won’t continue in the day of your affliction. 2 do not fall into the grip of your passion, a. Web 14 faithful friends are a sturdy shelter: 1 do not be a foe instead of a friend. Whoever finds one has found a treasure. Exchange greetings with many, but take advice from only one person out of a thousand. A bad reputation brings you the disgrace that lying sinners deserve. 2 do not let your passions carry you away;
For [thereby] thou shalt inherit an ill name, shame, and reproach: Web 6 let those that are at peace with you be many, but your advisers one of a thousand. Even so shall a sinner that hath a double tongue. 2 do not get carried aloft on the wings of passion, for fear your strength tear itself apart like a bull, 3 and you devour your own foliage and destroy your own fruit and end by making yourself like a piece of dried. Lest like fire it consume your strength. Web 14 faithful friends are a sturdy shelter: 17 those who fear the lord direct their friendship aright, for as they are, so are their neighbors also. 1 do not be a foe instead of a friend. Even so shall a sinner that hath a double tongue. Web sirach 6:6 catholic bible: And those who fear the lord will find them.
