Sirach 2:13
Good News Translation
Doom is sure to come for those who lose their courage; they have no faith, and so they will have no protection.

New Revised Standard Version
Woe to the fainthearted who have no trust! Therefore they will have no shelter.

Contemporary English Version
If you are too afraid to put your trust in him, he will not protect you when problems come.

New American Bible
Woe to the faint of heart! For they do not trust, and therefore have no shelter!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in truth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in truth.

Sirach 2:11
My children behold the generations of men: and know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded.

Sirach 2:12
For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath called upon him, and he despised him?

Sirach 2:14
Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.

Sirach 2:15
Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected by him.

Context
Sirach 2
12For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath called upon him, and he despised him? 13For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in truth. 14Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.…
Cross References
Sirach 2:11
My children behold the generations of men: and know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded.

Sirach 2:12
For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath called upon him, and he despised him?

Sirach 2:14
Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.

Sirach 2:15
Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected by him.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 2:12
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