Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation He looks at his food and sighs, like a castrated man hugging a young woman. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity: Sirach 30:18Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave. Sirach 30:19 What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell: Sirach 30:21 He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing. Sirach 30:22 Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Context Sirach 30…19What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell: 20So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity: 21He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing.… Cross References Sirach 30:18 Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave. Sirach 30:19 What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell: Sirach 30:21 He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing. Sirach 30:22 Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. |