Sirach 11:32
Good News Translation
A single spark can set a pile of coals ablaze, and a sinner is just waiting for a chance to do violence.

New Revised Standard Version
From a spark many coals are kindled, and a sinner lies in wait to shed blood.

Contemporary English Version
One spark can start a fire, and one sinner's evil plan can end in murder.

New American Bible
One spark kindles many coals; a sinner lies in wait for blood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour.

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.

Sirach 11:33
For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.

Sirach 11:34
Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.

Context
Sirach 11
31Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful. 32For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour. 33For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.…
Cross References
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.

Sirach 11:33
For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.

Sirach 11:34
Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 11:31
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