Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If you are invited to the home of someone influential, be reserved in your behavior. Then he will invite you more often. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Humble thyself to God, and wait for his hands. Sirach 13:7If he have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon thee will put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and will say: What wantest thou? Sirach 13:8 And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee. Sirach 13:10 Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled. Sirach 13:11 Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived into folly. Context Sirach 13…8And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee. 9Humble thyself to God, and wait for his hands. 10Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled.… Cross References Sirach 13:7 If he have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon thee will put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and will say: What wantest thou? Sirach 13:8 And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee. Sirach 13:10 Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled. Sirach 13:11 Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived into folly. |
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