Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If you do, you will never get rich; if you don't pay attention to small matters, you will gradually ruin yourself. Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little. Sirach 18:32Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual. Sirach 18:33 Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life. Sirach 19:2 Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent: Sirach 19:3 And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a greater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number. Context Sirach 19… 1A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little. 2Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent:… Cross References Sirach 18:32 Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual. Sirach 18:33 Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life. Sirach 19:2 Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent: Sirach 19:3 And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a greater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number. |
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