Sirach 4:16
Good News Translation
Put your trust in Wisdom, and you will possess her and pass her on to your descendants.

New Revised Standard Version
If they remain faithful, they will inherit her; their descendants will also obtain her.

Contemporary English Version
Remain faithful to her, and she will belong to you and your descendants.

New American Bible
If they remain faithful, they will possess me; their descendants too will inherit me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure.

Sirach 4:14
They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a blessing.

Sirach 4:15
They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her.

Sirach 4:17
If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.

Sirach 4:18
For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.

Context
Sirach 4
15They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her. 16He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure. 17If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.…
Cross References
Sirach 4:14
They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a blessing.

Sirach 4:15
They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her.

Sirach 4:17
If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.

Sirach 4:18
For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 4:15
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