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Sirach · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

Sirach 12 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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Sirach is not in RV1909.

DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds.
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2 Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly of the Lord.
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3 For there is no good for him that is always occupied in evil, and that giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on the penitent.
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4 Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay vengeance to the ungodly and to sinners, and keep them against the day of vengeance.
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5 Give to the good, and receive not a sinner.
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6 Do good to the humble, and give not to the ungodly: hold back thy bread, and give it not to him, lest thereby he overmaster thee.
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7 For thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou shalt have done to him: for the Highest also hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance to the ungodly.
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8 A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity.
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9 In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are grieved: and a friend is known in his adversity.
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10 Never trust thy enemy: for as a brass pot his wickedness rusteth:
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11 Though he humble himself and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him.
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12 Set him not by thee, neither let him sit on thy right hand, lest he turn into thy place, and seek to take thy seat: and at the last thou acknowledge my words, and be pricked with my sayings.
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13 Who will pity an enchanter struck by a serpent, or any that come near wild beasts? so is it with him that keepeth company with a wicked man, and is involved in his sins.
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14 For an hour he will abide with thee: but if thou begin to decline, he will not endure it.
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15 An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he lieth in wait, to throw thee into a pit.
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16 An enemy weepeth with his eyes: but if he find an opportunity he will not be satisfied with blood:
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17 And if evils come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first.
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18 An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while he pretendeth to help thee, will undermine thy feet.
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19 He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and change his countenance.
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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 12:4 Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine (Book III, Chapters 12–16)

    It is written: "Give to the godly man, and help not a sinner." The latter clause of this sentence seems to forbid benevolence; for it says, "help not a sinner." Understand, therefore, that "sinner" is put figuratively for sin, so that it is his sin you are not to help.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  2. Quotes verse 12:13 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily IX)

    "But who," it is said, "will pity a charmer that is bitten with a serpent?" For we ought, knowing its cruel tyranny, to flee that slavery, and destroy that grievous longing.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 12:4 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CII)

    "Help not a sinner:" and, "give not to the ungodly;" and yet, "give unto every man that asketh of thee." But it is a sinner who asketh of me.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)