Sirach 7:6
Good News Translation
Don't set your heart on being a judge, unless you have the strength of character it takes to put an end to injustice. If you let yourself be influenced by someone in a position of power, your integrity will be damaged.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not seek to become a judge, or you may be unable to root out injustice; you may be partial to the powerful, and so mar your integrity.

Contemporary English Version
Don't seek to be a judge unless you have the strength to do away with injustice. And if you don't have courage to stand up to the powerful, you will ruin your good name.

New American Bible
Do not seek to become a judge if you do not have the strength to root out crime, Lest you show fear in the presence of the prominent and mar your integrity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity.

Sirach 7:4
Seek not of the Lord a preeminence, nor of the king the seat of honour.

Sirach 7:5
Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise before the king.

Sirach 7:7
Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in upon the people,

Sirach 7:8
Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou shalt not be unpunished.

Context
Sirach 7
5Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise before the king. 6Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity. 7Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in upon the people,…
Cross References
Sirach 7:4
Seek not of the Lord a preeminence, nor of the king the seat of honour.

Sirach 7:5
Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise before the king.

Sirach 7:7
Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in upon the people,

Sirach 7:8
Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou shalt not be unpunished.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 7:5
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