Sirach 29:11
Good News Translation
Use your wealth as the Most High has commanded; this will do you more good than keeping your money for yourself.

New Revised Standard Version
Lay up your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High, and it will profit you more than gold.

Contemporary English Version
Give your gold to the needy as God Most High commands, and you will be better off than if you had kept it.

New American Bible
Dispose of your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High, and that will profit you more than the gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But yet towards the poor be thou more hearty, and delay not to shew him mercy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But yet towards the poor be thou more hearty, and delay not to shew him mercy.

Sirach 29:9
And he will pay him with reproaches and curses, and instead of honour and good turn will repay him injuries.

Sirach 29:10
Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness, but they were afraid to be defrauded without cause.

Sirach 29:12
Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away empty handed because of his poverty.

Sirach 29:13
Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend: and hide it not under a stone to be lost.

Context
Sirach 29
10Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness, but they were afraid to be defrauded without cause. 11But yet towards the poor be thou more hearty, and delay not to shew him mercy. 12Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away empty handed because of his poverty.…
Cross References
Sirach 29:9
And he will pay him with reproaches and curses, and instead of honour and good turn will repay him injuries.

Sirach 29:10
Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness, but they were afraid to be defrauded without cause.

Sirach 29:12
Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away empty handed because of his poverty.

Sirach 29:13
Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend: and hide it not under a stone to be lost.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 29:10
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