Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Take advantage of opportunities, but guard yourself against evil. Don't underrate yourself. Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy, Sirach 4:18For 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. Sirach 4:21 And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice. Sirach 4:22 But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy. Context Sirach 4…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, 21And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice.… Cross References 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. Sirach 4:21 And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice. Sirach 4:22 But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy. |
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