Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Then I would not keep on sinning, making one mistake after another. I could not fall to my enemies and be humiliated by them. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me? Sirach 23:1O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them. Sirach 23:2 Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear: Sirach 23:4 O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. Sirach 23:5 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. Context Sirach 23…2Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear: 3Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me? 4O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices.… Cross References Sirach 23:1 O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them. Sirach 23:2 Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear: Sirach 23:4 O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. Sirach 23:5 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. |