Sirach 20:2
Good News Translation
But it is much better to rebuke the person than to keep your anger bottled up.

New Revised Standard Version
How much better it is to rebuke than to fume!

Contemporary English Version
It is better to speak up than to let anger eat away at you.

New American Bible
It is much better to admonish than to lose one’s temper;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The lust of an eunuch shall deflour a young maiden:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The lust of an eunuch shall deflour a young maiden:

Sirach 19:28
There is a lying rebuke in the anger of an injurious man: and there is a judgment that is not allowed to be good: and there is one that holdeth his peace, he is wise.

Sirach 20:1
How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in prayer.

Sirach 20:3
So is he that by violence executeth of the unwise.

Sirach 20:4
How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance! for so thou shalt escape wilful sin.

Context
Sirach 20
1How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in prayer. 2The lust of an eunuch shall deflour a young maiden: 3So is he that by violence executeth of the unwise.…
Cross References
Sirach 19:28
There is a lying rebuke in the anger of an injurious man: and there is a judgment that is not allowed to be good: and there is one that holdeth his peace, he is wise.

Sirach 20:1
How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in prayer.

Sirach 20:3
So is he that by violence executeth of the unwise.

Sirach 20:4
How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance! for so thou shalt escape wilful sin.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 20:1
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