Sirach 31:21
Good News Translation
But if you do get a stomach ache from eating too much, go off and vomit and you will feel better.

New Revised Standard Version
If you are overstuffed with food, get up to vomit, and you will have relief.

Contemporary English Version
If your host makes you overeat, leave the table and vomit-- you will feel much better.

New American Bible
Should you have eaten too much, get up to vomit and you will have relief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if thou sittest among many, reach not thy hand out first of all, and be not the first to ask for drink.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if thou sittest among many, reach not thy hand out first of all, and be not the first to ask for drink.

Sirach 31:19
Use as a frugal man the things that are set before thee: lest if thou eatest much, thou be hated.

Sirach 31:20
Leave off first, for manners' sake: and exceed not, lest thou offend.

Sirach 31:22
How sufficient is a little wine for a man well taught, and in sleeping thou shalt not be uneasy with it, and thou shalt feel no pain.

Sirach 31:23
Watching, and choler, and gripes, are with an intemperate man:

Context
Sirach 31
20Leave off first, for manners' sake: and exceed not, lest thou offend. 21And if thou sittest among many, reach not thy hand out first of all, and be not the first to ask for drink. 22How sufficient is a little wine for a man well taught, and in sleeping thou shalt not be uneasy with it, and thou shalt feel no pain.…
Cross References
Sirach 31:19
Use as a frugal man the things that are set before thee: lest if thou eatest much, thou be hated.

Sirach 31:20
Leave off first, for manners' sake: and exceed not, lest thou offend.

Sirach 31:22
How sufficient is a little wine for a man well taught, and in sleeping thou shalt not be uneasy with it, and thou shalt feel no pain.

Sirach 31:23
Watching, and choler, and gripes, are with an intemperate man:



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 31:20
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