Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Don't you fence in your property? Don't you lock up your money? New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass. Sirach 28:22Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have perished by their own tongue. Sirach 28:23 Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands. Sirach 28:25 The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it. Sirach 28:26 Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame. Context Sirach 28…23Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands. 24For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass. 25The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it.… Cross References Sirach 28:22 Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have perished by their own tongue. Sirach 28:23 Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands. Sirach 28:25 The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it. Sirach 28:26 Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame. |
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