Sirach 19:10
Good News Translation
Have you heard a rumor? Let it die with you. Be brave! It won't make you explode.

New Revised Standard Version
Have you heard something? Let it die with you. Be brave, it will not make you burst!

Contemporary English Version
Treat rumors as secrets to be kept until you die; they can even make you feel as though you might explode, but be brave--you won't.

New American Bible
Let anything you hear die with you; never fear, it will not make you burst!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee.

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Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee.

Sirach 19:8
Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with thee, disclose it not.

Sirach 19:9
For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always.

Sirach 19:11
At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child.

Sirach 19:12
As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool.

Context
Sirach 19
9For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always. 10Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee. 11At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child.…
Cross References
Sirach 19:8
Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with thee, disclose it not.

Sirach 19:9
For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always.

Sirach 19:11
At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child.

Sirach 19:12
As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 19:9
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