Sirach 21:18 (WEB)
As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool. The knowledge of an unwise man is talk without sense.
Fathers and councils · 2
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.7Book VI
“…Sirach, who has left us the treatise called “Wisdom,” declaring in another, that “the knowledge of the unwise is as words that will not stand investigation.”” — editor's note: γνῶσις ἀσυνέτου ἀδιεξέταστοι λόγοι: cf. Ecclus. xxi. 18.
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“But he ought to know that those who wish to live according to the teaching of sacred Scripture understand the saying, “The knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense,” and have learnt “to be ready always to give an answer to every one that asketh us a reason for the hope that is in us.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. xxi. 18.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.12.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.7.