Sirach 20:5–7
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English
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Latin
One keepeth silence, and is accounted wise,
And another is despised for his much talking.
One keepeth silence, having naught to say;
And another keepeth silence, for he seeth (it is( a time (for silence(.
The wise man is silent until the (proper( time,
But the arrogant and the scornertake no note of the time.
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