Sirach 11:12
Good News Translation
On the other hand, someone else may be very poor and not up to his task. He may be slow, and he may need help, but the Lord is pleased with him and pulls him out of his bad situation.

New Revised Standard Version
There are others who are slow and need help, who lack strength and abound in poverty; but the eyes of the Lord look kindly upon them; he lifts them out of their lowly condition

Contemporary English Version
Others are poor and weak; they work slowly and always need help. But the Lord shows kindness

New American Bible
Others go their way broken-down drifters, with little strength and great misery— Yet the eye of the LORD looks favorably upon them, shaking them free of the stinking mire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty:

Sirach 11:10
My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake; and if thou run before thou shalt not escape.

Sirach 11:11
There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want.

Sirach 11:13
Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have wondered at him, and have glorified God.

Sirach 11:14
Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God.

Context
Sirach 11
11There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want. 12Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty: 13Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have wondered at him, and have glorified God.…
Cross References
Sirach 11:10
My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake; and if thou run before thou shalt not escape.

Sirach 11:11
There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want.

Sirach 11:13
Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have wondered at him, and have glorified God.

Sirach 11:14
Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 11:11
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