Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation A long illness puzzles the doctor. Even a king may be alive today and dead tomorrow. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels. Sirach 10:8A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits. Sirach 10:9 But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud? Sirach 10:11 All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician. Sirach 10:12 The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die. Context Sirach 10…9But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud? 10There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels. 11All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.… Cross References Sirach 10:8 A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits. Sirach 10:9 But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud? Sirach 10:11 All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician. Sirach 10:12 The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die. |