Sirach 18:25
Good News Translation
When you have all you want, think what it is like to be hungry, what it is to be poor.

New Revised Standard Version
In the time of plenty think of the time of hunger; in days of wealth think of poverty and need.

Contemporary English Version
If you have grown wealthy and have plenty of food, remember when you yourself were poor and hungry.

New American Bible
Think of the time of hunger in the time of plenty, poverty and need in the day of wealth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember poverty in the time of abundance, and the necessities of poverty in the day of riches.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Remember poverty in the time of abundance, and the necessities of poverty in the day of riches.

Sirach 18:23
Before prayer prepare thy soul: and be not as a man that tempteth God.

Sirach 18:24
Remember the wrath that shall be at the last day, and the time of repaying when he shall turn away his face.

Sirach 18:26
From the morning until the evening the time shall be changed, and all these are swift in the eyes of God.

Sirach 18:27
A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the days of sins will beware of sloth.

Context
Sirach 18
24Remember the wrath that shall be at the last day, and the time of repaying when he shall turn away his face. 25Remember poverty in the time of abundance, and the necessities of poverty in the day of riches. 26From the morning until the evening the time shall be changed, and all these are swift in the eyes of God.…
Cross References
Sirach 18:23
Before prayer prepare thy soul: and be not as a man that tempteth God.

Sirach 18:24
Remember the wrath that shall be at the last day, and the time of repaying when he shall turn away his face.

Sirach 18:26
From the morning until the evening the time shall be changed, and all these are swift in the eyes of God.

Sirach 18:27
A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the days of sins will beware of sloth.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 18:24
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