Ben Sira 22:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 Teaching a fool is like gluing a broken pot,(A)
or rousing another from deep sleep.
10 Whoever talks with a fool talks to someone asleep;
when it is over, he says, “What was that?”
11 Weep over the dead, for their light has gone out;
weep over the fool, for sense has left him.
Weep but less bitterly over the dead, for they are at rest;
worse than death is the life of a fool.
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