The furnace proveth the edge by dipping: so doth wine the hearts of the proud by drunkenness.
LXX2012
Sirach 34:26
So is it with a man that fasts for his sins, and goes again, and does the same: who will hear his prayer? or what does his humbling profit him?
Parallel Translations
So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins, and goeth again, and doeth the same: who will hear his prayer? or what doth his humbling profit him?
Even so a man fasting for his sins, and going again, and doing the same, who will listen to his prayer? What profit does he have in his humiliation?
He that washeth him self because of a dead bodie, and toucheth it againe, what auaileth his washing?