Sirach 4:30
Good News Translation
Don't act like a lion at home or be suspicious of your servants.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not be like a lion in your home, or suspicious of your servants.

Contemporary English Version
When you are at home, don't be fierce as a lion or suspicious of servants.

New American Bible
Do not be like a lion at home, or sly and suspicious with your servants.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In nowise speak against the truth, but be ashamed of the lie of thy ignorance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In nowise speak against the truth, but be ashamed of the lie of thy ignorance.

Sirach 4:28
And refrain not to speak in the time of salvation. Hide not thy wisdom in her beauty.

Sirach 4:29
For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and understanding, and knowledge, and learning by the word of the wise, and steadfastness in the works of justice.

Sirach 4:31
Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, but submit not thyself to every man for sin.

Sirach 4:32
Resist not against the face of the mighty, and do not strive against the stream of the river.

Context
Sirach 4
29For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and understanding, and knowledge, and learning by the word of the wise, and steadfastness in the works of justice. 30In nowise speak against the truth, but be ashamed of the lie of thy ignorance. 31Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, but submit not thyself to every man for sin.…
Cross References
Sirach 4:28
And refrain not to speak in the time of salvation. Hide not thy wisdom in her beauty.

Sirach 4:29
For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and understanding, and knowledge, and learning by the word of the wise, and steadfastness in the works of justice.

Sirach 4:31
Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, but submit not thyself to every man for sin.

Sirach 4:32
Resist not against the face of the mighty, and do not strive against the stream of the river.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 4:29
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