Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Keep him at work, and don't let him be idle; idleness can only teach him how to make trouble. Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours bow a slave. Sirach 33:25Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slave. Sirach 33:26 He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty. Sirach 33:28 Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle: Sirach 33:29 For idleness hath taught much evil. Context Sirach 33…26He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty. 27The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours bow a slave. 28Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle:… Cross References Sirach 33:25 Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slave. Sirach 33:26 He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty. Sirach 33:28 Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle: Sirach 33:29 For idleness hath taught much evil. |
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