Sirach 30:9
Good News Translation
If you pamper your child and play with him, he will be a disappointment and a source of grief.

New Revised Standard Version
Pamper a child, and he will terrorize you; play with him, and he will grieve you.

Contemporary English Version
If you give children everything they desire and laugh when they sin,

New American Bible
Pamper a child and he will be a terror for you, indulge him, and he will bring you grief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give thy son his way, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he shall make thee sorrowful.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Give thy son his way, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he shall make thee sorrowful.

Sirach 30:7
For the souls of his sons he shall bind up his wounds, and at every cry his bowels shall be troubled.

Sirach 30:8
A horse not broken becometh stubborn, and a child left to himself will become headstrong.

Sirach 30:10
Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow, and at the last thy teeth be set on edge.

Sirach 30:11
Give him not liberty in his youth, and wink not at his devices.

Context
Sirach 30
8A horse not broken becometh stubborn, and a child left to himself will become headstrong. 9Give thy son his way, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he shall make thee sorrowful. 10Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow, and at the last thy teeth be set on edge.…
Cross References
Sirach 30:7
For the souls of his sons he shall bind up his wounds, and at every cry his bowels shall be troubled.

Sirach 30:8
A horse not broken becometh stubborn, and a child left to himself will become headstrong.

Sirach 30:10
Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow, and at the last thy teeth be set on edge.

Sirach 30:11
Give him not liberty in his youth, and wink not at his devices.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 30:8
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