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Sirach 19:24 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Better is one who has little understanding, and fears God, than one who has much intelligence and transgresses the law. "

Sirach 19:24

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22 The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom. The prudence of sinners is not counsel.

23 There is a wickedness, and it is an abomination. There is a fool lacking in wisdom.

24 Better is one who has little understanding, and fears God, than one who has much intelligence and transgresses the law.

25 There is an exquisite subtlety, and it is unjust. And there is one who perverts favor to gain a judgment.

26 There is one who does wickedly, who hangs down his head with mourning; but inwardly he is full of deceit,

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