Sirach 4:18
Good News Translation
Then she will come to you with no delay, reveal her secrets to you, and make you happy.

New Revised Standard Version
Then she will come straight back to them again and gladden them, and will reveal her secrets to them.

Contemporary English Version
But then she will return straight to you, bringing happiness and telling her secrets.

New American Bible
then I will set them again on the straight path and reveal my secrets to them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.

Sirach 4:16
He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure.

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

Sirach 4:19
She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul.

Sirach 4:20
Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,

Context
Sirach 4
17If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance. 18For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him. 19She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul.…
Cross References
Sirach 4:16
He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure.

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

Sirach 4:19
She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul.

Sirach 4:20
Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 4:17
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