Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Be careful about the kind of person you invite into your home, because clever people can fool you in many ways. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works. Sirach 11:27In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things: Sirach 11:28 For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways. Sirach 11:30 Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children. Sirach 11:31 Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful. Context Sirach 11…28For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways. 29The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works. 30Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.… Cross References Sirach 11:27 In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things: Sirach 11:28 For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways. Sirach 11:30 Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children. Sirach 11:31 Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful. |