Sirach 38:24

The scribe’s superiority

24 The scribe's wisdom depends on the opportunity for leisure, and whoever lacks busyness will become wise.

Sirach 38:24 In-Context

22 Remember their sentence, because it's yours also: "Yesterday it was I, and today it's you!"
23 When the dead are at rest, put their memory to rest, and be comforted for them when their spirit has left.
24 The scribe's wisdom depends on the opportunity for leisure, and whoever lacks busyness will become wise.
25 How will people become wise when they take hold of a plow or pride themselves in how well they handle an ox prod, when they drive cattle and are absorbed with their work, and their conversation is about bulls?
26 Their hearts are given over to plowing furrows, and they lose sleep because they're concerned about supplying heifers with food.
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