Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation It will make you old before your time. Jealousy and anger will shorten your life. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his holiness: and drive away sadness far from thee. Sirach 30:22Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Sirach 30:23 The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life. Sirach 30:25 For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it. Sirach 30:26 Envy and anger shorten a man's days, and pensiveness will bring old age before the time. Context Sirach 30…23The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life. 24Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his holiness: and drive away sadness far from thee. 25For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it.… Cross References Sirach 30:22 Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Sirach 30:23 The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life. Sirach 30:25 For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it. Sirach 30:26 Envy and anger shorten a man's days, and pensiveness will bring old age before the time. |