Sirach 7:6
Good News Translation
Don't set your heart on being a judge, unless you have the strength of character it takes to put an end to injustice. If you let yourself be influenced by someone in a position of power, your integrity will be damaged.

Contemporary English Version
Don't seek to be a judge unless you have the strength to do away with injustice. And if you don't have courage to stand up to the powerful, you will ruin your good name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity.

Sirach 7:4
Seek not of the Lord a preeminence, nor of the king the seat of honour.

Sirach 7:5
Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise before the king.

Sirach 7:7
Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in upon the people,

Sirach 7:8
Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou shalt not be unpunished.

Context
Sirach 7
5Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise before the king. 6Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity. 7Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in upon the people,…
Cross References
Sirach 7:4
Seek not of the Lord a preeminence, nor of the king the seat of honour.

Sirach 7:5
Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise before the king.

Sirach 7:7
Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in upon the people,

Sirach 7:8
Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou shalt not be unpunished.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 7:5
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