Sirach 40:19
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English
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Latin
19Children and the building of a city establish one’s name,
but better than either is the one who finds wisdom.
Cattle and orchards make one prosperous,t
but a blameless wife is accounted better than either.*
Footnotes
- tHeb Syr: Gk lacks but better . . . prosperous
Cross references
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