Sirach 21:9
Good News Translation
A group of people who have no respect for the Law is like a pile of kindling; they will meet a fiery end.

New Revised Standard Version
An assembly of the wicked is like a bundle of tow, and their end is a blazing fire.

Contemporary English Version
A meeting of evil people is a bundle of straw, where a small flame ends in a blazing fire.

New American Bible
A band of criminals is like a bundle of tow; they will end in a flaming fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that buildeth his house at other men's charges, is as he that gathereth himself stones to build in the winter.

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He that buildeth his house at other men's charges, is as he that gathereth himself stones to build in the winter.

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.

Sirach 21:10
The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the end of them is a flame of fire.

Sirach 21:11
The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end is hell, and darkness, and pains.

Context
Sirach 21
8He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise man knoweth to slip by him. 9He that buildeth his house at other men's charges, is as he that gathereth himself stones to build in the winter. 10The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the end of them is a flame of fire.…
Cross References
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.

Sirach 21:10
The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the end of them is a flame of fire.

Sirach 21:11
The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end is hell, and darkness, and pains.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 21:8
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