Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Douay Bible: Sirach Chapter 20

Douay Bible: Sirach Chapter 20

Sirach 20:1
HOW much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in prayer.

Sirach 20:2
The lust of an eunuch shall devour a young maiden:

Sirach 20:3
So is he that by violence executeth unjust judgment.

Sirach 20:4
How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance! for so thou shalt escape wilful sin.

Sirach 20:5
There is one that holdeth his peace, that is found wise: and there is another that is hateful, that is bold in speech.

Sirach 20:6
There is one that holdeth his peace, because he knoweth not what to say: and there is another that holdeth his peace, knowing the proper time.

Sirach 20:7
A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity: but a babbler, and a fool, will regard no time.

Sirach 20:8
He that useth many words shall hurt his own soul: and he that taketh authority to himself unjustly shall be hated.

Sirach 20:9
There is success in evil things to a man without discipline, and there is a finding that turneth to loss.

Sirach 20:10
There is a gift that is not profitable: and there is a gift, the recompense of which is double.

Sirach 20:11
There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that shall lift up his head from a low estate.

Sirach 20:12
There is that buyeth much for a small price, and restoreth the same sevenfold.

Sirach 20:13
A man wise in words shall make himself beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out.

Sirach 20:14
The gift of the fool shall do thee no good: for his eyes are sevenfold.

Sirach 20:15
He will give a few things, and upbraid much: and the opening of his mouth is the kindling of a fire.

Sirach 20:16
To day a man lendeth, and to morrow he asketh it again: such a man as this is hateful.

Sirach 20:17
A fool shall have no friend, and there shall be no thanks for his good deeds.

Sirach 20:18
For they that eat his bread, are of a false tongue. How often, and how many will laugh him to scorn!

Sirach 20:19
For he doth not distribute with right understanding that which was to be had: in like manner also that which was not to be had.

Sirach 20:20
The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the pavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.

Sirach 20:21
A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise.

Sirach 20:22
A parable coming out, of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season.

Sirach 20:23
There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked.

Sirach 20:24
There is that will destroy his own soul through shamefacedness, and by occasion of an unwise person he will destroy it: and by respect of person he will destroy himself.

Sirach 20:25
There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh him his enemy for nothing.

Sirach 20:26
A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it will be continually in the mouth of men without discipline.

Sirach 20:27
A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of them shall inherit destruction.

Sirach 20:28
The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confusion is with them without ceasing.

Sirach 20:29
A wise man shall advance himself with his words, and a prudent man shall please the great ones.

Sirach 20:30
He that tilleth his land shall make a high heap of corn: and he that worketh justice shall be exalted: and he that pleaseth great men shall escape iniquity.

Sirach 20:31
Presents and gifts blind the eyes of judges, and make them dumb in the mouth, so that they cannot correct.

Sirach 20:32
Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is not seen: what profit is there in them both?

Sirach 20:33
Better is he that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.

King James Bible


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Bible Verses About love - Luke 9:35
And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

Bible Verses About love - Song-of-Solomon 8:5
Who [is] this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth [that] bare thee.

Bible Scriptures - Corinthians 2 5:17
Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.




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Bible Verses About love - Ephesians 2:4
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Bible Verses About love - Genesis 44:20
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

Bible Verses About stayed - Isaiah 26:3
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.

Bible Verses About bottom - Leviticus 4:18
And he shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar which [is] before the LORD, that [is] in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Bible Verses About banquet - Esther 5:8
If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

Bible Verses About soon - Samuel-2 6:18
And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.

Bible Verses About jehoiada - Kings-1 2:29
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

Bible Verses About entreated - Genesis 12:16
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

Bible Verses About soldiers - Acts 12:4
And when he had apprehended him, he put [him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

Bible Verses About merchants - Chronicles-2 9:14
Beside [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

Bible Verses About ignorance - Numbers 15:24
Then it shall be, if [ought] be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

Bible Verses About nathan - Ezra 8:16
Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

Bible Verses About spread - Isaiah 19:8
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

Bible Verses About ahasuerus - Daniel 9:1
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

Bible Verses About endureth - Psalms 135:13
Thy name, O LORD, [endureth] for ever; [and] thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.

Bible Verses About find - Ezra 4:15
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city [is] a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.

Bible Verses About played - Genesis 38:24
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

Bible Verses About beyond - Jeremiah 22:19
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Bible Verses About vowed - Numbers 21:2
And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

Bible Verses About cubits - Esther 7:9
And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

Bible Verses About dan - Deuteronomy 27:12
These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

Bible Verses About hated - Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this [man] to reign over us.

Bible Verses About courage - Psalms 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Bible Verses About heaven - Daniel 12:7
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which [was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that [it shall be] for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these [things] shall be finished.

Bible Verses About visions - Daniel 7:1
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, [and] told the sum of the matters.

Bible Verses About fathers - Chronicles-2 15:12
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

Bible Verses About prayer - Psalms 42:8
[Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.

Bible Verses About joy - Matthew 28:8
And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.

Bible Verses About sadness - Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Bible Verses About fasting - Matthew 15:32
Then Jesus called his disciples [unto him], and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Bible Verses About jealousy - Kings-1 14:22
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

Bible Verses About lying - John 13:25
He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?

Bible Verses About husbands - Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.

Bible Verses About poor - Leviticus 23:22
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.

Bible Verses About wife - Ezekiel 33:26
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

Bible Verses About marriage - Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Bible Verses About trust - Psalms 22:5
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

Bible Verses About women - Revelations 9:8
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions.

Bible Verses About baptism - Colossians 2:12
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

Bible Verses About giving - Corinthians-1 14:7
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

Bible Verses About anger - Exodus 30:33
Whosoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whosoever putteth [any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

Bible Verses About health - Samuel-2 20:9
And Joab said to Amasa, [Art] thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

Bible Scriptures About heart - Job 10:13
And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee.

Bible Scriptures About declare - Isaiah 21:10
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

Bible Scriptures About rain - Jeremiah 14:10
Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Bible Scriptures About corn - Hosea 2:9
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.

Bible Scriptures About wind - Job 8:2
How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?

Bible Scriptures About david - Psalms 144:1
[A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:

Bible Scriptures About sabbath - John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.

Bible Scriptures About reproach - Psalms 78:66
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

Bible Scriptures About heavens - Psalms 50:6
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. Selah.

Bible Scriptures About begat - Genesis 5:30
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:




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Bible Verses About giving - Luke 5:28
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.

Bible Verses About caring - Deuteronomy 12:19
See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

Bible Verses About purpose - Philippians 1:17
But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

Bible Verses About salvation - Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.

Bible Verses About faith - 1-Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

Bible Verses About baptism - John 4:2
(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),

Bible Verses About fathers - Jeremiah 16:3
For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

Bible Verses About heaven - 2-Kings 7:19
And that captain said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said to him, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

Bible Verses About visions - 1-Chronicles 26:1
For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.

Bible Verses About money - Proverbs 20:14
A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

Bible Verses About strength - 1-Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.

Bible Verses About grace - Isaiah 60:10
And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.

Bible Verses About love - Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.

Bible Verses About prayer - Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

Bible Verses About poor - Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

Bible Verses About wife - Genesis 4:17
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.

Bible Verses About peace - Isaiah 48:18
If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Bible Verses About women - Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

Bible Verses About dreams - Zechariah 10:2
For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

Bible Verses About friend - Judges 14:20
But Samson's wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.




World English Bible


Bible Verses About blameless - Judges 15:3
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

Bible Verses About wonderful - Psalms 119:129
PE. Thy testimonies [are] wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

Bible Verses About scorpion - Chronicles-2 10:11
For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.

Bible Verses About carpenter - Matthew 13:55
Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Bible Verses About anak - Deuteronomy 2:11
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

Bible Verses About cush - Chronicles-1 1:8
The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Bible Verses About unfaithful - Psalms 78:57
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Bible Verses About cold - Revelations 3:15
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

Bible Verses About cost - Timothy-1 2:9
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

Bible Verses About hereafter - Revelations 9:12
One woe is past; [and], behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Bible Verses About beast - Revelations 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Bible Verses About acknowledge - Corinthians-2 1:14
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Bible Verses About skies - Psalms 77:17
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

Bible Verses About disobedience - Colossians 3:6
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

Bible Verses About chaldeans - Jeremiah 50:35
A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men].

Bible Verses About shine - Job 29:3
When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;

Bible Verses About hymn - Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Bible Verses About flourish - Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Bible Verses About worm - Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Bible Verses About expectation - Proverbs 11:7
When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust [men] perisheth.

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