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Sirach · World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)

Sirach 5 World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)

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Notes on this text (1)

Sirach is not in RV1909.

WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 Don’t set your heart upon your goods. Don’t say, “They are sufficient for me.”
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2 Don’t follow your own mind and your strength to walk in the desires of your heart.
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3 Don’t say, “Who will have dominion over me?” for the Lord will surely take vengeance on you.
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4 Don’t say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?” for the Lord is patient.
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5 Don’t be so confident of atonement that you add sin upon sins.
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6 Don’t say, “His compassion is great. He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins,” for mercy and wrath are with him, and his indignation will rest on sinners.
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7 Don’t wait to turn to the Lord. Don’t put off from day to day; for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will come on you, and you will perish in the time of vengeance.
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8 Don’t set your heart upon unrighteous gains, for you will profit nothing in the day of calamity.
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9 Don’t winnow with every wind. Don’t walk in every path. This is what the sinner who has a double tongue does.
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10 Be steadfast in your understanding. Let your speech be consistent.
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11 Be swift to hear and answer with patience.
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12 If you have understanding, answer your neighbour; but if not, put your hand over your mouth.
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13 Glory and dishonour is in talk. A man’s tongue may be his downfall.
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14 Don’t be called a whisperer. Don’t lie in wait with your tongue; for shame is on the thief, and an evil condemnation is on him who has a double tongue.
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15 Don’t be ignorant in a great or small matter.
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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 5:7 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon XXXVII)

    … despaired wrongly, and were lost in their despair, and called them back to hope; so doth He go forth to these also who would perish through an evil hope; and by another book He saith to them, "Make no tarrying to turn to the Lord." As He had said to the others, "In whatsoever day a man shall turn from …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)