Sirach 33:3
Good News Translation
If you are wise, you will believe in the Law; you will find it as reliable as the sacred lots.

New Revised Standard Version
The sensible person will trust in the law; for such a one the law is as dependable as a divine oracle.

Contemporary English Version
Be sensible and trust what God has said in his Law.

New American Bible
The prudent trust in the word of the LORD, and the law is dependable for them as a divine oracle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law is faithful to him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law is faithful to him.

Sirach 33:1
No evils shall happen to him that feareth the Lord, but in temptation God will keep him and deliver him from evils.

Sirach 33:2
A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.

Sirach 33:4
He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to say, and so having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he shall answer.

Sirach 33:5
The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.

Context
Sirach 33
2A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm. 3A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law is faithful to him. 4He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to say, and so having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he shall answer.…
Cross References
Sirach 33:1
No evils shall happen to him that feareth the Lord, but in temptation God will keep him and deliver him from evils.

Sirach 33:2
A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.

Sirach 33:4
He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to say, and so having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he shall answer.

Sirach 33:5
The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 33:2
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