Sirach 31:22 (WEB)
Hear me, my son, and don’t despise me, and in the end you will appreciate my words. In all your works be skillful, and no disease will come to you.
Fathers and councils · 1
““For” (it says) “he that taketh away a livelihood” ( Ecclus. xxxiv. 22 ) and asketh bread, it says.” — editor's note: καὶ ἄρτον αἰτῶν, φησί. There is great variation in the mss. of this passage: and possibly the true reading is lost. St. Chrys. partly quotes Ecclus. xxxi. 22…
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