Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation When a rich person speaks, everyone is silent, and they praise him to the skies for what he says. But let a poor person speak, and everybody says, "Who is that?" They push him down if he so much as stumbles. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The wild ass is the lion's prey in the desert: so also the poor are devoured by the rich. Sirach 13:21If the wolf shall at any time have fellowship with the lamb, so the sinner with the just. Sirach 13:22 What fellowship hath a holy man with a dog, or what part hath the rich with the poor? Sirach 13:24 And as humility is an abomination to the proud: so also the rich man abhorreth the poor. Sirach 13:25 When a rich man is shaken, he is kept up by his friends: but when a poor man is fallen down, he is thrust away even by his acquaintance. Context Sirach 13…22What fellowship hath a holy man with a dog, or what part hath the rich with the poor? 23The wild ass is the lion's prey in the desert: so also the poor are devoured by the rich. 24And as humility is an abomination to the proud: so also the rich man abhorreth the poor.… Cross References Sirach 13:21 If the wolf shall at any time have fellowship with the lamb, so the sinner with the just. Sirach 13:22 What fellowship hath a holy man with a dog, or what part hath the rich with the poor? Sirach 13:24 And as humility is an abomination to the proud: so also the rich man abhorreth the poor. Sirach 13:25 When a rich man is shaken, he is kept up by his friends: but when a poor man is fallen down, he is thrust away even by his acquaintance. |