Sirach 5:17
Douay-Rheims Bible
For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and enmity, and reproach.
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For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and enmity, and reproach.

Sirach 5:15
Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his ruin.

Sirach 5:16
Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded.

Sirach 5:18
Justify alike the small and the great.

Sirach 6:1
Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious and double tongued.

Context
Sirach 5
16Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded. 17For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and enmity, and reproach. 18Justify alike the small and the great.…
Cross References
Sirach 5:15
Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his ruin.

Sirach 5:16
Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded.

Sirach 5:18
Justify alike the small and the great.

Sirach 6:1
Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious and double tongued.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 5:16
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