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Sirach 37:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Let reason be the beginning of every work. Let counsel go before every action. "

Sirach 37:16

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14 For a man’s soul is sometimes inclined to inform him better than seven watchmen who sit on high on a watch-tower.

15 Above all this ask the Most High that he may direct your way in truth.

16 Let reason be the beginning of every work. Let counsel go before every action.

17 As a token of the changing of the heart,

18 four kinds of things rise up: good and evil, life and death. That which rules over them continually is the tongue.

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Sirach 37:1

"Every friend will say, “I also am his friend”; but there is a friend which is only a friend in name."

Sirach 37:2

"Isn’t there a grief in it even to death when a companion and friend is turned into an enemy?"

Sirach 37:3

"O wicked imagination, why were you formed to cover the dry land with deceit?"

Sirach 37:4

"There is a companion who rejoices in the gladness of a friend, but in time of affliction will be against him."

Sirach 37:5

"There is a companion who for the belly’s sake labors with his friend, yet in the face of battle will carry his buckler."

Sirach 37:6

"Don’t forget a friend in your soul. Don’t be unmindful of him in your riches."

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