Sirach 23:21
Good News Translation
That sinful man will be caught when he least expects it, and punished publicly.

New Revised Standard Version
This man will be punished in the streets of the city, and where he least suspects it, he will be seized.

Contemporary English Version
So unfaithful husbands will be caught when they suspect nothing and will be punished in the city streets.

New American Bible
Such a man will be denounced in the streets of the city; and where he least suspects it, he will be apprehended.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction.

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.

Sirach 23:20
The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be corrected all the days of his life.

Sirach 23:22
A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched, till it devour some thing.

Sirach 23:23
And a man that is wicked in the mouth of his flesh, will not leave off till he hath kindled a fire.

Context
Sirach 23
20The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be corrected all the days of his life. 21Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction. 22A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched, till it devour some thing.…
Cross References
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.

Sirach 23:20
The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be corrected all the days of his life.

Sirach 23:22
A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched, till it devour some thing.

Sirach 23:23
And a man that is wicked in the mouth of his flesh, will not leave off till he hath kindled a fire.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 23:20
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