Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible 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 42:3Of 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. |