Sirach 41:8
Good News Translation
You are doomed, you irreligious people who have abandoned the Law of the Most High God.

New Revised Standard Version
Woe to you, the ungodly, who have forsaken the law of the Most High God!

Contemporary English Version
The godless are in for trouble, because they refuse to obey the Law of God Most High.

New American Bible
Woe to you, O wicked people, who forsake the Law of the Most High.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.

Sirach 41:6
And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.

Sirach 41:7
For among the dead there is no accusing of life.

Sirach 41:9
The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

Sirach 41:10
The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.

Context
Sirach 41
7For among the dead there is no accusing of life. 8The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly. 9The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.…
Cross References
Sirach 41:6
And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.

Sirach 41:7
For among the dead there is no accusing of life.

Sirach 41:9
The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

Sirach 41:10
The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 41:7
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