Sirach 32:8
Good News Translation
Come to the point and say it all in a few words. Show that you are well-informed, but stay quiet.

Contemporary English Version
and say as much as you can in as few words as possible. This will show your knowledge and also your self-control.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

Sirach 32:7
A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold.

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

Sirach 32:10
Young man, scarcely speak in thy own cause.

Context
Sirach 32
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. 9Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.…
Cross References
Sirach 32:6
Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom.

Sirach 32:7
A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold.

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

Sirach 32:10
Young man, scarcely speak in thy own cause.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 32:7
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