Sirach 29:25
Good News Translation
You welcome the guests and pour the drinks, and nobody thanks you. Instead, people humiliate you by saying things like:

New Revised Standard Version
you will play the host and provide drink without being thanked, and besides this you will hear rude words like these:

Contemporary English Version
You will become their servant, and instead of thanking you, they will say,

New American Bible
You will entertain and provide drink without being thanked; besides, you will hear these bitter words:

Douay-Rheims Bible
A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall fall into judgment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall fall into judgment.

Sirach 29:23
Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.

Sirach 29:24
It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries.

Sirach 29:26
Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to thyself that thou fall not.

Sirach 29:27
The chief thing for man's life is water and bread, and clothing, and a house to cover shame.

Context
Sirach 29
24It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries. 25A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall fall into judgment. 26Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to thyself that thou fall not.…
Cross References
Sirach 29:23
Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.

Sirach 29:24
It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries.

Sirach 29:26
Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to thyself that thou fall not.

Sirach 29:27
The chief thing for man's life is water and bread, and clothing, and a house to cover shame.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 29:24
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