Ecclesiasticus 42:6
“Sure keeping is good where an euill wife is, and shut vp where many hands are.”
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Ecclesiasticus 42:6 Context
4Of exactnesse of ballance, and waights: or of getting much or little: 5And of merchants indifferent selling, of much correction of children, and to make the side of an euill seruant to bleed. 6Sure keeping is good where an euill wife is, and shut vp where many hands are. 7Deliuer all things in number and waight, and put al in writing that thou giuest out, or receiuest in. 8Be not ashamed to informe the vnwise and foolish, and the extreeme aged that contendeth with those that are yong, thus shalt thou bee truely learned and approued of all men liuing.
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Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are.
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