Sirach 32:24 Catholic Bible: My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done.

◄ Sirach 32:24 ►

Good News Translation
Believing in the Law means keeping the Lord's commands. If you trust the Lord, you cannot lose.

New Revised Standard Version
The one who keeps the law preserves himself, and the one who trusts the Lord will not suffer loss.

Contemporary English Version
If you believe in God's Law, then do what it says. Trust the Lord, and you will have success.

New American Bible
Whoever keeps the law preserves himself; and whoever trusts in the LORD shall not be put to shame.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done.

Sirach 32:22
A man of counsel will not neglect understanding, a strange and proud man will not dread fear:

Sirach 32:23
Even after he hath done with fear without counsel, he shall be controlled by the things of his own seeking.

Sirach 32:25
Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a stumblingblock to thy soul.

Sirach 32:26
And beware of thy own children, and take heed of them of thy household.

Context

Sirach 32
…23Even after he hath done with fear without counsel, he shall be controlled by the things of his own seeking. 24My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done. 25Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a stumblingblock to thy soul.…

Cross References

(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

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