Sirach 28:26 Catholic Bible: 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.

◄ Sirach 28:26 ►

Good News Translation
Someone may be waiting for you to slip, and if you are not careful, you will stumble over your own words and fall down in front of him.

New Revised Standard Version
As you lock up your silver and gold,

Contemporary English Version
so that others cannot attack you for what you have said.

New American Bible
Take care not to slip by your tongue and fall victim to one lying in ambush.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Sirach 28:24
For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass.

Sirach 28:25
The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it.

Sirach 28:27
They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them.

Sirach 28:28
Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear not a wicked tongue, and make doors and bars to thy mouth.

Context

Sirach 28
…25The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it. 26Its 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. 27They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them.…

Cross References

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