Sirach 27:21
Good News Translation
Wounds can be bandaged and insults can be forgiven, but if you betray a confidence, it is hopeless.

New Revised Standard Version
For a wound may be bandaged, and there is reconciliation after abuse, but whoever has betrayed secrets is without hope.

Contemporary English Version
Wounds can be bandaged and insults forgiven, but nothing can heal the harm of telling someone's secret.

New American Bible
For a wound can be bandaged, and an insult forgiven, but whoever betrays secrets does hopeless damage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again.

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And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again.

Sirach 27:19
But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.

Sirach 27:20
For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour.

Sirach 27:22
Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded.

Sirach 27:23
Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation:

Context
Sirach 27
20For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour. 21And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again. 22Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded.…
Cross References
Sirach 27:19
But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.

Sirach 27:20
For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour.

Sirach 27:22
Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded.

Sirach 27:23
Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation:



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 27:20
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