Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation and do not be an enemy when you should be a friend. A bad reputation brings you the disgrace that lying sinners deserve. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious and double tongued. Sirach 5:17For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and enmity, and reproach. Sirach 5:18 Justify alike the small and the great. Sirach 6:2 Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly, Sirach 6:3 And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness. Context Sirach 6… 1Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious and double tongued. 2Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly,… Cross References Sirach 5:17 For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and enmity, and reproach. Sirach 5:18 Justify alike the small and the great. Sirach 6:2 Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly, Sirach 6:3 And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness. |