Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Throw a stone straight up in the air and it will come down on your head. Strike a blow, and you yourself will be wounded. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off: Sirach 27:23Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation: Sirach 27:24 But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul. Sirach 27:26 In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock. Sirach 27:27 I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate him. Context Sirach 27…24But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul. 25He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off: 26In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock.… Cross References Sirach 27:23 Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation: Sirach 27:24 But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul. Sirach 27:26 In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock. Sirach 27:27 I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate him. |