Sirach 39:27
Good News Translation
All these things are good for those who are devout, but they turn into evils for sinners.

New Revised Standard Version
All these are good for the godly, but for sinners they turn into evils.

Contemporary English Version
All of these are good for God's loyal people but become evil in the hands of sinners.

New American Bible
For the good all these are good, but for the wicked they turn out evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His blessing hath overflowed like a river.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His blessing hath overflowed like a river.

Sirach 39:25
He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing wonderful before him.

Sirach 39:26
There is no saying: What is this, or what is that? for all things shall be sought in their time.

Sirach 39:28
And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.

Sirach 39:29
Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was made dry: and his ways were made plain for their journey: so to sinners they are stumblingblocks in his wrath.

Context
Sirach 39
26There is no saying: What is this, or what is that? for all things shall be sought in their time. 27His blessing hath overflowed like a river. 28And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.…
Cross References
Sirach 39:25
He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing wonderful before him.

Sirach 39:26
There is no saying: What is this, or what is that? for all things shall be sought in their time.

Sirach 39:28
And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.

Sirach 39:29
Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was made dry: and his ways were made plain for their journey: so to sinners they are stumblingblocks in his wrath.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 39:26
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