Sirach 6:3
Good News Translation
You will be left like a dead tree without any leaves or fruit.

New Revised Standard Version
Your leaves will be devoured and your fruit destroyed, and you will be left like a withered tree.

Contemporary English Version
and you will be left to wither, like a tree with burned leaves and scorched fruit.

New American Bible
It will eat your leaves and destroy your fruits, and you will be left like a dry tree.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness.

Sirach 6:1
Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious and double tongued.

Sirach 6:2
Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly,

Sirach 6:4
For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked.

Sirach 6:5
A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth.

Context
Sirach 6
2Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly, 3And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness. 4For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked.…
Cross References
Sirach 6:1
Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious and double tongued.

Sirach 6:2
Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly,

Sirach 6:4
For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked.

Sirach 6:5
A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 6:2
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