Sirach 27:16
Good News Translation
If you repeat secrets that have been told to you, you are destroying the confidence others have in you, and you will never have a close friend.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever betrays secrets destroys confidence, and will never find a congenial friend.

Contemporary English Version
Your friends won't trust you or like you anymore if you can't keep a secret.

New American Bible
Whoever betrays a secret destroys confidence, and will never find a congenial friend.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.

Sirach 27:14
The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the pleasures of sin.

Sirach 27:15
The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.

Sirach 27:17
He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.

Sirach 27:18
Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.

Context
Sirach 27
15The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears. 16In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing. 17He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.…
Cross References
Sirach 27:14
The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the pleasures of sin.

Sirach 27:15
The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.

Sirach 27:17
He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.

Sirach 27:18
Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 27:15
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