Sirach 9:15
Good News Translation
Engage in conversation with intelligent people, and let the Law of the Most High be the topic of your discussions.

New Revised Standard Version
Let your conversation be with intelligent people, and let all your discussion be about the law of the Most High.

Contemporary English Version
Speak with the wise about the Law of God Most High.

New American Bible
With the learned exchange ideas; and let all your conversation be about the law of the Most High.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Sirach 9:13
And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction.

Sirach 9:14
Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him.

Sirach 9:16
Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be.

Sirach 9:17
Be not pleased with the wrong done by the unjust, knowing that even to hell the wicked shall not please.

Context
Sirach 9
14Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him. 15A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure. 16Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be.…
Cross References
Sirach 9:13
And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction.

Sirach 9:14
Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him.

Sirach 9:16
Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be.

Sirach 9:17
Be not pleased with the wrong done by the unjust, knowing that even to hell the wicked shall not please.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 9:14
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