Sirach 7:15
Good News Translation
Don't try to avoid farm work or other hard labor; the Most High has given us these jobs to do.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not hate hard labor or farm work, which was created by the Most High.

Contemporary English Version
Enjoy all kinds of hard work, especially farming, because God Most High created it.

New American Bible
Do not hate hard work; work was assigned by God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer.

Sirach 7:13
Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.

Sirach 7:14
Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

Sirach 7:16
Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High.

Sirach 7:17
Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly.

Context
Sirach 7
14Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good. 15Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer. 16Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High.…
Cross References
Sirach 7:13
Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.

Sirach 7:14
Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

Sirach 7:16
Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High.

Sirach 7:17
Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 7:14
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