Sirach 16:5
Good News Translation
I have seen such things many times and have heard of even more striking examples.

New Revised Standard Version
Many such things my eye has seen, and my ear has heard things more striking than these.

Contemporary English Version
Here are but a few of the important things I have seen and heard:

New American Bible
Many such things my eye has seen, and even more than these my ear has heard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate.

Sirach 16:3
For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.

Sirach 16:4
And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.

Sirach 16:6
Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard.

Sirach 16:7
In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath shall flame out.

Context
Sirach 16
4And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children. 5By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate. 6Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard.…
Cross References
Sirach 16:3
For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.

Sirach 16:4
And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.

Sirach 16:6
Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard.

Sirach 16:7
In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath shall flame out.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 16:4
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