Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If a person is too poor to afford sin, he can rest without a guilty conscience. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise. Sirach 20:19For he doth not distribute with right understanding that which was to be had: in like manner also that which was not to be had. Sirach 20:20 The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the pavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily. Sirach 20:22 A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season. Sirach 20:23 There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked. Context Sirach 20…20The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the pavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily. 21A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise. 22A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season.… Cross References Sirach 20:19 For he doth not distribute with right understanding that which was to be had: in like manner also that which was not to be had. Sirach 20:20 The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the pavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily. Sirach 20:22 A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season. Sirach 20:23 There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked. |