Sirach 23:11 Catholic Bible: Anyone who takes oaths all the time is sinful to the core, and punishment is never far away from his household. If he fails to fulfill his oath, he is guilty. If he ignores his oath, he is twice as guilty. If his oath was insincere in the first place, he cannot be pardoned and will have a house full of trouble.

◄ Sirach 23:11 ►

Good News Translation
Anyone who takes oaths all the time is sinful to the core, and punishment is never far away from his household. If he fails to fulfill his oath, he is guilty. If he ignores his oath, he is twice as guilty. If his oath was insincere in the first place, he cannot be pardoned and will have a house full of trouble.

New Revised Standard Version
The one who swears many oaths is full of iniquity, and the scourge will not leave his house. If he swears in error, his sin remains on him, and if he disregards it, he sins doubly; if he swears a false oath, he will not be justified, for his house will be filled with calamities.

Contemporary English Version
The wicked make promises with God as their witness, but when a promise is broken, they just explain that it was made by mistake. Or they forget it on purpose, which means that they are twice as guilty. And if they lied in God's name, they will not be forgiven and their family is doomed. *

New American Bible
Those who swear many oaths heap up offenses; and the scourge will never be far from their houses. If they swear in error, guilt is incurred; if they neglect their obligation, the sin is doubly great. If they swear without reason they cannot be declared innocent, for their households will be filled with calamities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a blue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure from sin.

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For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a blue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure from sin.

Sirach 23:9
Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are many falls.

Sirach 23:10
And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle not with the names of saints, for thou shalt not escape free from them.

Sirach 23:12
A man that sweareth much, shall be filled with iniquity, and a scourge shall not depart from his house.

Sirach 23:13
And if he make it void, his sin shall be upon him, and if he dissemble it, he offendeth double:

Context

Sirach 23
…10And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle not with the names of saints, for thou shalt not escape free from them. 11For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a blue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure from sin. 12A man that sweareth much, shall be filled with iniquity, and a scourge shall not depart from his house.…

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