Sirach 11:29
Good News Translation
Be careful about the kind of person you invite into your home, because clever people can fool you in many ways.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not invite everyone into your home, for many are the tricks of the crafty.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let just anyone come to your house. Dishonest people will trick you,

New American Bible
Not everyone should be brought into your house, for many are the snares of the crafty.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.

Sirach 11:27
In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things:

Sirach 11:28
For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.

Sirach 11:30
Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.

Sirach 11:31
Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful.

Context
Sirach 11
28For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways. 29The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works. 30Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.…
Cross References
Sirach 11:27
In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things:

Sirach 11:28
For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.

Sirach 11:30
Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.

Sirach 11:31
Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 11:28
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