Sirach 31:31
Good News Translation
Never rebuke a person when you have both been drinking. Don't hurt his feelings while he is having a good time. It's not the time to criticize anyone, or to ask him to pay back a debt.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not reprove your neighbor at a banquet of wine, and do not despise him in his merrymaking; speak no word of reproach to him, and do not distress him by making demands of him.

Contemporary English Version
Don't scold your friends or be disgusted when they drink and celebrate at a party. And don't make them feel bad or upset them with a reminder that they owe you money.

New American Bible
Do not wrangle with your neighbor when wine is served, nor despise him while he is having a good time; Say no harsh words to him nor distress him by making demands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to excess shall rebuke the hearts of the proud.

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Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to excess shall rebuke the hearts of the proud.

Sirach 31:29
Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, and the testimony of his niggardliness is true.

Sirach 31:30
Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many.

Sirach 31:32
Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it moderately, thou shalt be sober.

Sirach 31:33
What is his life, who is diminished with wine?

Context
Sirach 31
30Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many. 31Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to excess shall rebuke the hearts of the proud. 32Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it moderately, thou shalt be sober.…
Cross References
Sirach 31:29
Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, and the testimony of his niggardliness is true.

Sirach 31:30
Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many.

Sirach 31:32
Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it moderately, thou shalt be sober.

Sirach 31:33
What is his life, who is diminished with wine?



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Sirach 31:30
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