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Proverbs 29:20-22
New Catholic Bible
Proverbs 29:20-22
New Catholic Bible
20 Do you see someone who is too eager to speak?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
21 If you pamper a slave from his childhood,
in the end he will prove ungrateful.[a]
22 A bad-tempered man provokes quarrels,
and a hothead commits a host of offenses.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 29:21 Vulgate reading; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.