Sirach 21:5
Good News Translation
When poor people pray, God hears them and quickly answers their prayers.

New Revised Standard Version
The prayer of the poor goes from their lips to the ears of God, and his judgment comes speedily.

Contemporary English Version
The prayers of the poor go straight to God's ear, and he quickly answers.

New American Bible
Prayer from the lips of the poor is heard at once, and justice is quickly granted them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Injuries and wrongs will waste riches: and the house that is very rich shall be brought to nothing by pride: so the substance of the proud shall be rooted out.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Injuries and wrongs will waste riches: and the house that is very rich shall be brought to nothing by pride: so the substance of the proud shall be rooted out.

Sirach 21:3
The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, killing the souls of men.

Sirach 21:4
All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for the wound thereof.

Sirach 21:6
The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of God, and judgment shall come for him speedily.

Sirach 21:7
He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will turn to his own heart.

Context
Sirach 21
4All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for the wound thereof. 5Injuries and wrongs will waste riches: and the house that is very rich shall be brought to nothing by pride: so the substance of the proud shall be rooted out. 6The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of God, and judgment shall come for him speedily.…
Cross References
Sirach 21:3
The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, killing the souls of men.

Sirach 21:4
All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for the wound thereof.

Sirach 21:6
The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of God, and judgment shall come for him speedily.

Sirach 21:7
He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will turn to his own heart.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 21:4
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