Sirach 32:7
Good News Translation
If you are young, don't speak unless you have to, but never more than twice, and only if someone speaks to you first.

New Revised Standard Version
Speak, you who are young, if you are obliged to, but no more than twice, and only if asked.

Contemporary English Version
If you are a younger guest, don't talk unless someone asks you a question. Don't speak more than twice,

New American Bible
Speak, young man, only when necessary, when they have asked you more than once.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold.

Sirach 32:5
To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not music.

Sirach 32:6
Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom.

Sirach 32:8
As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.

Sirach 32:9
Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.

Context
Sirach 32
6Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom. 7A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold. 8As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.…
Cross References
Sirach 32:5
To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not music.

Sirach 32:6
Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom.

Sirach 32:8
As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.

Sirach 32:9
Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 32:6
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