Sirach 3:16
Good News Translation
Those who abandon their parents or give them cause for anger may as well be cursing the Lord; they are already under the Lord's curse.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever forsakes a father is like a blasphemer, and whoever angers a mother is cursed by the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
But abandoning your father or making your mother angry is as bad as cursing the Lord, and so he will curse you.

New American Bible
Those who neglect their father are like blasphemers; those who provoke their mother are accursed by their Creator.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother.

Sirach 3:14
Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his life;

Sirach 3:15
And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall not be forgotten.

Sirach 3:17
And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather.

Sirach 3:18
Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh his father: and he is cursed of God that angereth his mother.

Context
Sirach 3
15And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall not be forgotten. 16For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother. 17And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather.…
Cross References
Sirach 3:14
Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his life;

Sirach 3:15
And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall not be forgotten.

Sirach 3:17
And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather.

Sirach 3:18
Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh his father: and he is cursed of God that angereth his mother.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 3:15
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