Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Have you heard a rumor? Let it die with you. Be brave! It won't make you explode. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee. Sirach 19:8Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with thee, disclose it not. Sirach 19:9 For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always. Sirach 19:11 At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child. Sirach 19:12 As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool. Context Sirach 19…9For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always. 10Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee. 11At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child.… Cross References Sirach 19:8 Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with thee, disclose it not. Sirach 19:9 For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always. Sirach 19:11 At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child. Sirach 19:12 As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool. |