Sirach 16:20
Good News Translation
The Lord isn't going to give me a thought. Nobody cares what I do.

New Revised Standard Version
But no human mind can grasp this, and who can comprehend his ways?

Contemporary English Version
But no human can understand how his mighty power works.

New American Bible
Of me, therefore, he will take no notice; with my ways who will be concerned?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him.

Sirach 16:18
Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight,

Sirach 16:19
The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling.

Sirach 16:21
And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man shall see?

Sirach 16:22
For many of his works are hidden, but the works of his justice who shall declare? or who shall endure? for the testament is far from some, and the examination of all is in the end.

Context
Sirach 16
19The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling. 20And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him. 21And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man shall see?…
Cross References
Sirach 16:18
Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight,

Sirach 16:19
The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling.

Sirach 16:21
And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man shall see?

Sirach 16:22
For many of his works are hidden, but the works of his justice who shall declare? or who shall endure? for the testament is far from some, and the examination of all is in the end.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 16:19
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