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A quotation from The Bible

Can people hold on to their anger
against others, and then look for healing from the Lord?
   Can they refuse to have mercy
   on people like themselves,
   and then pray about their own sins?
   If they, who are just flesh,
   hold on to anger,
   who will secure pardon
   for their own sins?
   
[ἄνθρωπος ἀνθρώπῳ συντηρεῖ ὀργήν,
   καὶ παρὰ κυρίου ζητεῖ ἴασιν;
ἐπ᾽ ἄνθρωπον ὅμοιον αὐτῷ οὐκ ἔχει ἔλεος,
   καὶ περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτοῦ δεῖται;
αὐτὸς σὰρξ ὢν διατηρεῖ μῆνιν,
   τίς ἐξιλάσεται τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτοῦ;]

The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 28: 3ff (Sir 28:3–5) [tr. CEB (2011)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/85272/

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