Sirach 19:9
Good News Translation
Whoever hears you will take note of it, and sooner or later will hate you for it.

New Revised Standard Version
for someone may have heard you and watched you, and in time will hate you.

Contemporary English Version
People may be listening and watching, and if you repeat gossip, they might start hating you.

New American Bible
For someone may have heard you and watched you, and in time come to hate you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 19:7
Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh word, and thou shalt not fare the worse.

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

Sirach 19:10
Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee.

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

Context
Sirach 19
8Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with thee, disclose it not. 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.…
Cross References
Sirach 19:7
Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh word, and thou shalt not fare the worse.

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

Sirach 19:10
Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee.

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



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Sirach 19:8
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