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Ben Sira 37:16

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16 Reason is the beginning of every work, and counsel precedes every undertaking.
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Ben Sira 37:16 In-Context

14 For a man's soul sometimes keeps him better informed than seven watchmen sitting high on a watchtower.
15 And besides all this pray to the Most High that he may direct your way in truth.
16 Reason is the beginning of every work, and counsel precedes every undertaking.
17 As a clue to changes of heart
18 four turns of fortune appear, good and evil, life and death; and it is the tongue that continually rules them.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.