Sirach 32:1
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
If they make you master of the feast, do not exalt yourself; be among them as one of their number. Take care of them first and then sit down;

Contemporary English Version
If you are placed in charge of a dinner party, don't try to act important. Just make sure all the guests have what they need

New American Bible
If you are chosen to preside at a dinner, do not be puffed up, but with the guests be as one of them; Take care of them first and then sit down;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one of them.

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.

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.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 31:42
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