Sirach 30:24
Good News Translation
It will make you old before your time. Jealousy and anger will shorten your life.

New Revised Standard Version
Jealousy and anger shorten life, and anxiety brings on premature old age.

Contemporary English Version
Jealousy and anger will cut your life short, and worrying makes you old before your time.

New American Bible
Envy and anger shorten one’s days, and anxiety brings on premature old age.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his holiness: and drive away sadness far from thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his holiness: and drive away sadness far from thee.

Sirach 30:22
Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel.

Sirach 30:23
The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life.

Sirach 30:25
For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it.

Sirach 30:26
Envy and anger shorten a man's days, and pensiveness will bring old age before the time.

Context
Sirach 30
23The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life. 24Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his holiness: and drive away sadness far from thee. 25For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it.…
Cross References
Sirach 30:22
Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel.

Sirach 30:23
The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life.

Sirach 30:25
For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it.

Sirach 30:26
Envy and anger shorten a man's days, and pensiveness will bring old age before the time.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 30:23
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