Sirach 11:34
Good News Translation
If you bring a stranger home with you, it will only cause trouble, even between you and your own family.

New Revised Standard Version
Receive strangers into your home and they will stir up trouble for you, and will make you a stranger to your own family.

Contemporary English Version
And if you let foreigners come to live in your home, they will cause trouble and persuade you to accept their customs and gods.

New American Bible
Admit strangers into your home, and they will stir up trouble and make you a stranger to your own family.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Sirach 11:32
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 11:33
For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.

Sirach 11:35
Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever.

Sirach 11:36
Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own.

Context
Sirach 11
33For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot. 34Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood. 35Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever.…
Cross References
Sirach 11:32
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 11:33
For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.

Sirach 11:35
Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever.

Sirach 11:36
Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 11:33
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