Sirach 6:1
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
1 and do not become an enemy instead of a friend; for a bad name incurs shame and reproach; so it is with the double-tongued sinner.

Contemporary English Version
that turn you into an enemy instead of a friend. A reputation for being dishonest will bring you nothing but shame and insults.

New American Bible
Do not be a foe instead of a friend. A bad name, disgrace, and dishonor you will inherit. Thus the wicked, the double-tongued!

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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 5:17
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.

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.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 5:18
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