Sirach 23:17
Good News Translation
To such a man all women are desirable, and he can never get enough as long as he lives.

New Revised Standard Version
To a fornicator all bread is sweet; he will never weary until he dies.

Contemporary English Version
Last are those who have sex with anyone they can and will do so until they die.

New American Bible
To the unchaste all bread is sweet; he is never through till he dies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein is the word of sin.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein is the word of sin.

Sirach 23:15
There is also another speech opposite to death, let it not be found in the inheritance of Jacob.

Sirach 23:16
For from the merciful all these things shall be taken away, and they shall not wallow in sins.

Sirach 23:18
Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the midst of great men:

Sirach 23:19
Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity.

Context
Sirach 23
16For from the merciful all these things shall be taken away, and they shall not wallow in sins. 17Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein is the word of sin. 18Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the midst of great men:…
Cross References
Sirach 23:15
There is also another speech opposite to death, let it not be found in the inheritance of Jacob.

Sirach 23:16
For from the merciful all these things shall be taken away, and they shall not wallow in sins.

Sirach 23:18
Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the midst of great men:

Sirach 23:19
Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 23:16
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