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Ben Sira 27:20
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Ben Sira 27:20
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Don't bother going after him. It's too late. He is gone, like a deer escaped from a trap.
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You have killed that friendship just as surely as if you had taken a weapon and killed an enemy.
19
Your friend is gone. You can no more get him back than you can get a bird to come back to your hand once you let it go.
20
Don't bother going after him. It's too late. He is gone, like a deer escaped from a trap.
21
Wounds can be bandaged and insults can be forgiven, but if you betray a confidence, it is hopeless.
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When someone starts winking at you, he has something bad in mind, and nothing can stop him from going through with it.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.