Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If you are young, don't speak unless you have to, but never more than twice, and only if someone speaks to you first. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold. Sirach 32:5To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not music. Sirach 32:6 Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom. Sirach 32:8 As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine. Sirach 32:9 Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee. Context Sirach 32…6Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom. 7A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold. 8As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.… Cross References Sirach 32:5 To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not music. Sirach 32:6 Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom. Sirach 32:8 As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine. Sirach 32:9 Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee. |