Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If you have a slave, treat him as you would want to be treated; you bought him with your hard-earned money. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Set him to work: for so it is fit for him. And if he be not obedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any one, and do no grievous thing without judgment. Sirach 33:28Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle: Sirach 33:29 For idleness hath taught much evil. Sirach 33:31 If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou hast gotten him. Sirach 33:32 If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away: Context Sirach 33…29For idleness hath taught much evil. 30Set him to work: for so it is fit for him. And if he be not obedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any one, and do no grievous thing without judgment. 31If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou hast gotten him.… Cross References Sirach 33:28 Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle: Sirach 33:29 For idleness hath taught much evil. Sirach 33:31 If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou hast gotten him. Sirach 33:32 If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away: |