Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation It is wise to lock things up if you cannot trust your wife or if too many people are around. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife. Sirach 42:4Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little: Sirach 42:5 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 42:7 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. Sirach 42:8 Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living. Context Sirach 42…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. 7Where 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.… Cross References Sirach 42:4 Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little: Sirach 42:5 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 42:7 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. Sirach 42:8 Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living. |