Wider Ancient Witness Archive · 4.6 Syriac Christian Wisdom, Prayer, and Historical Witness Archive
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Syriac Wisdom Sayings Collections
This text is included as a comparative, historical, philosophical, ritual, textual, or fragmentary witness. It is not presented as part of the Restored Bible.
Syriac Wisdom Sayings Collections
[Archive witness: collections of moral maxims preserved in the Syriac tradition.]
My son, fear God, and you will fear no other.
Better a poor man who speaks truth than a rich man who lies.
Open your hand to the needy, and your store will not fail.
Guard your tongue, and you will keep your soul from trouble.
Do not answer before you have heard.
The wise man hides his knowledge until it is needed;
the fool pours out his folly before all.
A friend in truth is found in the day of distress.
[A selection; the collections are longer.]