Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If he needs you, he will trick you with his smiles and cheerful, kindly words. "Do you need anything?" he will ask. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge If thou have any thing, he will live with thee, and will make thee bare, and he will not be sorry for thee. Sirach 13:4The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he will fume: but the poor is wronged and must hold his peace. Sirach 13:5 If thou give, he will make use of thee: and if thou have nothing, he will forsake thee. Sirach 13:7 If he have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon thee will put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and will say: What wantest thou? Sirach 13:8 And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee. Context Sirach 13…5If thou give, he will make use of thee: and if thou have nothing, he will forsake thee. 6If thou have any thing, he will live with thee, and will make thee bare, and he will not be sorry for thee. 7If he have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon thee will put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and will say: What wantest thou?… Cross References Sirach 13:4 The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he will fume: but the poor is wronged and must hold his peace. Sirach 13:5 If thou give, he will make use of thee: and if thou have nothing, he will forsake thee. Sirach 13:7 If he have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon thee will put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and will say: What wantest thou? Sirach 13:8 And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee. |