Sirach 5:3

3 Say not, ‘Who shall have power over me?’e

For Jahveh is an avenger fof the persecutedf.

(d) 5:4–8. The Wickedness of tempting God

(= 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 distichs).

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H	Manuscript A, containing ch. 3:6–16:26; this consists of six leaves, and may be of the eleventh century.
H	Manuscript C (= Lévi’s D), containing an anthology from chapters 4–7, 18–20, 25, 26, 27. This MS consists of four leaves, and, according to Gaster, is older than the other MSS.