Sirach 41:19
Good News Translation
Before your neighbors, be ashamed of theft. Be ashamed of breaking a promise, of leaning on the dinner table with your elbows, of stinginess when you are asked for something,

Contemporary English Version
or steal from neighbors; if you break promises that you made in God's name; if you have bad manners when eating dinner, or when giving a gift or receiving one;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.

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Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.

Sirach 41:17
My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?

Sirach 41:18
Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.

Sirach 41:20
For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.

Sirach 41:21
Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:

Context
Sirach 41
18Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom. 19Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of. 20For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.…
Cross References
Sirach 41:17
My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?

Sirach 41:18
Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.

Sirach 41:20
For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.

Sirach 41:21
Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 41:18
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