Holy Scripture
Sirach 26:29
A church father on this verse
“If we do not examine it closely, this passage seems contradictory and problematical. If in fact every merchant or shopkeeper merits condemnation, then no one who practices a trade can escape the same punishment. Is not a transaction the attempt to sell something at a higher price than what it cost? Elsewhere, we read…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
29A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong; And a huckster shall not be freed from sin.
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In context
28There be two things that grieve my heart; And the third maketh me angry: A man of war that suffereth poverty; And men of understanding that are not set by: And one that returneth from righteousness to sin; The Lord prepareth such a one for the sword.
— Sirach 26:29 —