Sirach 19:20
Good News Translation
Fear the Lord and keep his Law; that is what Wisdom is all about.

New Revised Standard Version
The whole of wisdom is fear of the Lord, and in all wisdom there is the fulfillment of the law.

Contemporary English Version
Fearing the Lord and obeying his Law are really the same as having wisdom.

New American Bible
All wisdom is fear of the LORD; and in all wisdom, the observance of the Law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom.

Sirach 19:18
And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the law is in all wisdom.

Sirach 19:19
But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence.

Sirach 19:21
Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High.

Sirach 19:22
There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust.

Context
Sirach 19
19But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence. 20There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom. 21Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High.…
Cross References
Sirach 19:18
And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the law is in all wisdom.

Sirach 19:19
But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence.

Sirach 19:21
Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High.

Sirach 19:22
There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 19:19
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