Sirach 41:21
Good News Translation
of turning down a relative's request, of depriving someone of what is rightly his, of staring at another man's wife,

Contemporary English Version
or if you desire the wife of another man or if you try to have sex with one of his slave girls; if you refuse to help a relative or if you take what was given to someone else;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:

Sirach 41:19
Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.

Sirach 41:20
For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.

Sirach 41:22
Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:

Sirach 41:23
Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,

Context
Sirach 41
20For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion. 21Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power: 22Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:…
Cross References
Sirach 41:19
Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.

Sirach 41:20
For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.

Sirach 41:22
Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:

Sirach 41:23
Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 41:20
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