Sirach 13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Sirach 13Caution Regarding Associates

1 will exploit you if you can be of use to them,

but if you are in need they will abandon you.

5If you own something, they will live with you;

they will drain your resources without a qualm.

6When they need you, they will deceive you

and will smile at you and encourage you;

they will speak to you kindly and say, “What do you need?”

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9When the influential invite you, be reserved,

and they will invite you more insistently.

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15 falls, he is pushed away by friends.

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26 Prov 15.13; Eccl 12.12 The sign of a happy heart is a cheerful face,

but to devise proverbs requires strenuous thinking.

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