Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Before your neighbors, be ashamed of theft. Be ashamed of breaking a promise, of leaning on the dinner table with your elbows, of stinginess when you are asked for something, New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of. Sirach 41:17My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both? Sirach 41:18 Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom. Sirach 41:20 For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion. Sirach 41:21 Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power: Context Sirach 41…18Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom. 19Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of. 20For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.… Cross References Sirach 41:17 My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both? Sirach 41:18 Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom. Sirach 41:20 For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion. Sirach 41:21 Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power: |