Sirach 21:6
Good News Translation
If you refuse to accept correction, you are committing a sin; and if you fear the Lord, you will make a sincere change in your ways.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who hate reproof walk in the sinner’s steps, but those who fear the Lord repent in their heart.

Contemporary English Version
If you hate correction, you will become a sinner, but if you take it to heart, you will obey the Lord.

New American Bible
Whoever hates correction walks the sinner’s path, but whoever fears the Lord repents in his heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of God, and judgment shall come for him speedily.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

Sirach 21:5
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 21:7
He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will turn to his own heart.

Sirach 21:8
He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise man knoweth to slip by him.

Context
Sirach 21
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. 7He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will turn to his own heart.…
Cross References
Sirach 21:4
All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for the wound thereof.

Sirach 21:5
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 21:7
He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will turn to his own heart.

Sirach 21:8
He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise man knoweth to slip by him.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 21:5
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