Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought.
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Sirach 32:20
[My sonne,] do nothing without aduisement: so shal it not repent thee after the dede.
Parallel Translations
Go not in a way wherein you may fall, and stumble not among the stones.
Go not in a way wherein thou mayest fall, and stumble not among the stones.
Don’t go in a way of conflict. Don’t stumble in stony places.