Sirach 4:19
Good News Translation
But if you go astray, she will abandon you and let you go to your own ruin.

New Revised Standard Version
If they go astray she will forsake them, and hand them over to their ruin.

Contemporary English Version
But if you wander away, she will let you go off to your doom.

New American Bible
But if they turn away from me, I will abandon them and deliver them over to robbers.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

Sirach 4:17
If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.

Sirach 4:18
For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.

Sirach 4:20
Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,

Sirach 4:21
And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice.

Context
Sirach 4
18For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him. 19She 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. 20Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,…
Cross References
Sirach 4:17
If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.

Sirach 4:18
For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.

Sirach 4:20
Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,

Sirach 4:21
And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 4:18
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