Sirach 7:11
Good News Translation
Don't laugh at someone who has been humiliated. It is the Lord who humbles a person, but the Lord also raises him up again.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not ridicule a person who is embittered in spirit, for there is One who humbles and exalts.

Contemporary English Version
God can take away your success as easily as he gave it, so do not make fun of anyone who is bitter from suffering.

New American Bible
Do not ridicule the embittered; Remember: there is One who exalts and humbles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings.

Sirach 7:9
Be not fainthearted in thy mind:

Sirach 7:10
Neglect not to pray, and to give alms.

Sirach 7:12
Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all.

Sirach 7:13
Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.

Context
Sirach 7
10Neglect not to pray, and to give alms. 11Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings. 12Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all.…
Cross References
Sirach 7:9
Be not fainthearted in thy mind:

Sirach 7:10
Neglect not to pray, and to give alms.

Sirach 7:12
Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all.

Sirach 7:13
Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 7:10
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