Sirach 10:10
Good News Translation
A long illness puzzles the doctor. Even a king may be alive today and dead tomorrow.

New Revised Standard Version
A long illness baffles the physician; the king of today will die tomorrow.

Contemporary English Version
A long illness mocks the skill of physicians, and even a king can die without warning.

New American Bible
A slight illness—the doctor jests; a king today—tomorrow he is dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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 10:8
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.

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.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 10:9
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