Sirach 4:17
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
For at first she will walk with them on tortuous paths; she will bring fear and dread upon them, and will torment them by her discipline until she trusts them, and she will test them with her ordinances.

Contemporary English Version
At first, Wisdom will test you with her commands, and you will walk in fear along twisting pathways. Her discipline will bring suffering until you are truly faithful.

New American Bible
“I will walk with them in disguise, and at first I will test them with trials. Fear and dread I will bring upon them and I will discipline them with my constraints. When their hearts are fully with me,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.

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.

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.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 4:16
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