Sirach 7:12
Good News Translation
Don't think up lies to tell about your friends.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not devise a lie against your brother, or do the same to a friend.

Contemporary English Version
Do not tell lies to a relative or a friend

New American Bible
Do not plot mischief against your relative or against your friend and companion.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

Sirach 7:11
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 7:13
Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.

Sirach 7:14
Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

Context
Sirach 7
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. 13Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.…
Cross References
Sirach 7:10
Neglect not to pray, and to give alms.

Sirach 7:11
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 7:13
Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.

Sirach 7:14
Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 7:11
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