Sirach 3:10
Good News Translation
Never seek honor for yourself at your father's expense; it is not to your credit if he is dishonored.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not glorify yourself by dishonoring your father, for your father’s dishonor is no glory to you.

Contemporary English Version
You cannot get respect by disgracing your parents.

New American Bible
Do not glory in your father’s disgrace, for that is no glory to you!

Douay-Rheims Bible
That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end.

Sirach 3:8
He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, and will serve them as his masters that brought him into the world.

Sirach 3:9
Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience,

Sirach 3:11
The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation.

Sirach 3:12
Glory not in the dishonour of thy father: for his shame is no glory to thee.

Context
Sirach 3
9Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience, 10That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end. 11The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation.…
Cross References
Sirach 3:8
He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, and will serve them as his masters that brought him into the world.

Sirach 3:9
Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience,

Sirach 3:11
The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation.

Sirach 3:12
Glory not in the dishonour of thy father: for his shame is no glory to thee.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

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