Sirach 32:2
Good News Translation
After you have performed your duties, you can sit down and enjoy yourself with the others. They will respect you for doing a good job.

New Revised Standard Version
when you have fulfilled all your duties, take your place, so that you may be merry along with them and receive a wreath for your excellent leadership.

Contemporary English Version
before you are seated. Then enjoy the dinner with everyone else, and they will honor you for a job well done.

New American Bible
see to their needs, and then take your place, To share in their joy and receive a wreath for a job well done.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, take thy place:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, take thy place:

Sirach 31:42
Speak not to him words of reproach: and press him not in demanding again.

Sirach 32:1
Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one of them.

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.

Sirach 32:4
Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee,

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: 3That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an ornament of grace, and get the honour of the contribution.…
Cross References
Sirach 31:42
Speak not to him words of reproach: and press him not in demanding again.

Sirach 32:1
Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one of them.

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.

Sirach 32:4
Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee,



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 32:1
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