Sirach 42:5
Good News Translation
making a profit, whether great or small, bargaining with a merchant, disciplining your children often, beating a disloyal slave until the blood flows.

New Revised Standard Version
of profit from dealing with merchants, and of frequent disciplining of children, and of drawing blood from the back of a wicked slave.

Contemporary English Version
or if you make a profit on what you sell; if you punish your children when they need it; if your slaves do wrong, and you whip them until they bleed.

New American Bible
of bargaining in dealing with a merchant; Of constant training of children, of beating the sides of a wicked servant;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed.

Sirach 42:3
Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of the inheritance of friends:

Sirach 42:4
Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little:

Sirach 42:6
Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.

Sirach 42:7
Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.

Context
Sirach 42
4Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little: 5Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed. 6Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.…
Cross References
Sirach 42:3
Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of the inheritance of friends:

Sirach 42:4
Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little:

Sirach 42:6
Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.

Sirach 42:7
Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 42:4
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