Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation At first, Wisdom will lead you along difficult paths. She will make you so afraid that you will think you cannot go on. The discipline she demands will be tormenting, and she will put you to the test with her requirements until she trusts you completely. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance. Sirach 4:15They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her. Sirach 4:16 He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure. Sirach 4:18 For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him. Sirach 4:19 She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul. Context Sirach 4…16He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure. 17If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance. 18For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.… Cross References Sirach 4:15 They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her. Sirach 4:16 He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure. Sirach 4:18 For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him. Sirach 4:19 She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul. |