Holy Scripture
Sirach 35:20
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“When tribulation comes, you will not be without help. This will show you that what he sent you during the day was true. In a certain passage it is written, "Mercy is as wonderful in time of affliction as clouds that bear rain in time of drought." "By day the Lord sent his mercy, and by night I will tell of it." At no…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20Go not in a way wherein thou mayest fall, And stumble not among the stones.
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18A man of counsel will be considerate; But a strange and proud man is not daunted with fear, Even when of himself he hath done without counsel.
19Do nothing without advice; And when thou hast once done, repent not.
— Sirach 35:20 —
21Be not confident in a plain way.
22And beware of thine own children.