Exalt not yourself, lest you fall, And bring dishonor upon your soul; And so the Lord will reveal your secrets, And will cast you down in the midst of the congregation; Because you came not to the fear of the Lord, And your heart was full of deceit.
⛓ Read Sirach 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Ben Sira warns the hypocrite that the Lord will reveal his secrets and cast him down in the assembly for not coming in fear of the Lord — a close conceptual parallel to leaven/hypocrisy that will be made manifest. Second-Temple Availability and shared hypocrisy theme support a faint echo.
Low confidenceBen Sira repeatedly contrasts outward show with the heart and warns against hypocrisy ('exalt not yourself... the Lord will reveal your secrets'), part of the Second-Temple wisdom milieu locating defilement in interior disposition. Deuterocanonical availability supporting the heart-purity theme; contested and faint.
Low confidence