Sirach 27:26
Good News Translation
People who set traps fall into them themselves.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever sets a snare will be caught in it.

Contemporary English Version
And you will get caught in traps that you set to cheat others.

New American Bible
Whoever digs a pit falls into it, and whoever lays a snare is caught in it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock.

Sirach 27:24
But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul.

Sirach 27:25
He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off:

Sirach 27:27
I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate him.

Sirach 27:28
If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and the deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful.

Context
Sirach 27
25He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off: 26In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock. 27I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate him.…
Cross References
Sirach 27:24
But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul.

Sirach 27:25
He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off:

Sirach 27:27
I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate him.

Sirach 27:28
If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and the deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 27:25
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