Sirach 33:12
Good News Translation
He blessed some, making them honored and holy, keeping them near him. Others he cursed, humbling them and removing them from their positions.

New Revised Standard Version
Some he blessed and exalted, and some he made holy and brought near to himself; but some he cursed and brought low, and turned them out of their place.

Contemporary English Version
He blessed our ancestors and made them great, and he even let some be his holy priests. But he put a curse on the nations of Canaan-- they were defeated and forced to leave the land.

New American Bible
Some he blessed and exalted, and some he sanctified and drew to himself. Others he cursed and brought low, and expelled them from their place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned them from their station.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned them from their station.

Sirach 33:10
Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.

Sirach 33:11
With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified their ways.

Sirach 33:13
As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it:

Sirach 33:14
All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his judgment.

Context
Sirach 33
11With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified their ways. 12Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned them from their station. 13As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it:…
Cross References
Sirach 33:10
Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.

Sirach 33:11
With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified their ways.

Sirach 33:13
As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it:

Sirach 33:14
All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his judgment.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 33:11
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