Sirach 19:13
Good News Translation
If you hear that a friend has done something wrong, ask him about it. Maybe it isn't true. If it is true, he won't do it again.

New Revised Standard Version
Question a friend; perhaps he did not do it; or if he did, so that he may not do it again.

Contemporary English Version
Talk to friends or neighbors if you hear that they have wronged you or said something to harm your reputation.

New American Bible
Admonish your friend—he may not have done it; and if he did, that he may not do it again.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more.

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.

Sirach 19:14
Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he may not say it again.

Sirach 19:15
Admonish thy friend: for there is often a fault committed.

Context
Sirach 19
12As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool. 13Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more. 14Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he may not say it again.…
Cross References
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.

Sirach 19:14
Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he may not say it again.

Sirach 19:15
Admonish thy friend: for there is often a fault committed.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 19:12
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