Sirach 34:29
New Revised Standard Version
When one prays and another curses, to whose voice will the Lord listen?

Contemporary English Version
When they are asking God to put a curse on you, will he listen to your prayer?

New American Bible
If one prays and another curses, whose voice will God hear?

Douay-Rheims Bible
When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God hear?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God hear?

Sirach 34:27
He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire, are brothers.

Sirach 34:28
When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have they but the labour?

Sirach 34:30
He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth his washing avail?

Sirach 34:31
So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again, what doth his humbling himself profit him? who will hear his prayer?

Context
Sirach 34
28When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have they but the labour? 29When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God hear? 30He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth his washing avail?…
Cross References
Sirach 34:27
He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire, are brothers.

Sirach 34:28
When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have they but the labour?

Sirach 34:30
He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth his washing avail?

Sirach 34:31
So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again, what doth his humbling himself profit him? who will hear his prayer?



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 34:28
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