Sirach 33:16
Good News Translation
As for me, I have been the last to come on duty, as if going through vineyards to gather whatever the grape-pickers had left behind. But the Lord blessed me, and I did well, like a grape-picker who has filled the wine press.

New Revised Standard Version
Now I was the last to keep vigil; I was like a gleaner following the grape-pickers;

Contemporary English Version
I am the last in the line of the teachers of wisdom, like a poor man picking grapes after the main harvest.

New American Bible
Now I am the last to keep vigil, like a gleaner following the grape-pickers;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers.

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.

Sirach 33:15
Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most High. Two and two, and one against another.

Sirach 33:17
In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that gathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress.

Sirach 33:18
See that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all that seek discipline.

Context
Sirach 33
15Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most High. Two and two, and one against another. 16And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers. 17In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that gathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress.…
Cross References
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.

Sirach 33:15
Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most High. Two and two, and one against another.

Sirach 33:17
In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that gathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress.

Sirach 33:18
See that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all that seek discipline.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 33:15
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