Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation There are two things that make me sad, and a third that makes me angry: a soldier who has become poor, intelligent people who are not respected, and a righteous person who turns to evil. The Lord will punish such a person with death! New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips. Sirach 26:26A man of war fainting through poverty, and a man of sense despised: Sirach 26:27 And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword. Sirach 27:1 Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye. Sirach 27:2 As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast. Context Sirach 26…27And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword. 28Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips. … Cross References Sirach 26:26 A man of war fainting through poverty, and a man of sense despised: Sirach 26:27 And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword. Sirach 27:1 Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye. Sirach 27:2 As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast. |