Sirach 38:14
Good News Translation
The doctor's prayer is that the Lord will make him able to ease his patients' pain and make them well again.

New Revised Standard Version
for they too pray to the Lord that he grant them success in diagnosis and in healing, for the sake of preserving life.

Contemporary English Version
and they will ask the Lord how to make you well and relieve your pain.

New American Bible
He too prays to God That his diagnosis may be correct and his treatment bring about a cure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall beseech the Lord, that he would prosper what they give for ease and remedy, for their conversation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall beseech the Lord, that he would prosper what they give for ease and remedy, for their conversation.

Sirach 38:12
For the Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, for his works are necessary.

Sirach 38:13
For there is a time when thou must fall into their hands:

Sirach 38:15
He that sinneth in the sight of his Maker, shall fall into the hands of the physician.

Sirach 38:16
My son, shed tears over the dead, and begin to lament as if thou hadst suffered some great harm, and according to judgment cover his body, and neglect not his burial.

Context
Sirach 38
13For there is a time when thou must fall into their hands: 14And they shall beseech the Lord, that he would prosper what they give for ease and remedy, for their conversation. 15He that sinneth in the sight of his Maker, shall fall into the hands of the physician.…
Cross References
Sirach 38:12
For the Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, for his works are necessary.

Sirach 38:13
For there is a time when thou must fall into their hands:

Sirach 38:15
He that sinneth in the sight of his Maker, shall fall into the hands of the physician.

Sirach 38:16
My son, shed tears over the dead, and begin to lament as if thou hadst suffered some great harm, and according to judgment cover his body, and neglect not his burial.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 38:13
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