Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If you are chosen to preside at a banquet, don't put on airs. Just be like everyone else. Look after the guests before you sit down. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one of them. Sirach 31:41Rebuke not thy neighbour in a banquet of wine: and despise him not in his mirth. Sirach 31:42 Speak not to him words of reproach: and press him not in demanding again. Sirach 32:2 Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, take thy place: Sirach 32:3 That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an ornament of grace, and get the honour of the contribution. Context Sirach 32… 1Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one of them. 2Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, take thy place:… Cross References Sirach 31:41 Rebuke not thy neighbour in a banquet of wine: and despise him not in his mirth. Sirach 31:42 Speak not to him words of reproach: and press him not in demanding again. Sirach 32:2 Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, take thy place: Sirach 32:3 That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an ornament of grace, and get the honour of the contribution. |