Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation and that carelessness will cost him his life. Worms will feed on his decaying body. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a greater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number. Sirach 19:1A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little. Sirach 19:2 Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent: Sirach 19:4 He that is hasty to give credit, is light of heart, and shall be lessened: and he that sinneth against his own soul, shall be despised. Sirach 19:5 He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be censured, and he that hateth chastisement, shall have less life: and he that hateth babbling, extinguisheth evil. Context Sirach 19…2Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent: 3And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a greater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number. 4He that is hasty to give credit, is light of heart, and shall be lessened: and he that sinneth against his own soul, shall be despised.… Cross References Sirach 19:1 A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little. Sirach 19:2 Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent: Sirach 19:4 He that is hasty to give credit, is light of heart, and shall be lessened: and he that sinneth against his own soul, shall be despised. Sirach 19:5 He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be censured, and he that hateth chastisement, shall have less life: and he that hateth babbling, extinguisheth evil. |