Sirach 9:16
Good News Translation
Choose righteous people for your dinner companions. Your chief pride should be your fear of the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
Let the righteous be your dinner companions, and let your glory be in the fear of the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Ask godly people over for dinner and be proud that you fear the Lord.

New American Bible
Take the righteous for your table companions; and let your glory be in the fear of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

Sirach 9:15
A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

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

Sirach 9:18
Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill, so thou shalt not suspect the fear of death.

Context
Sirach 9
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. 17Be not pleased with the wrong done by the unjust, knowing that even to hell the wicked shall not please.…
Cross References
Sirach 9:14
Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him.

Sirach 9:15
A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

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

Sirach 9:18
Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill, so thou shalt not suspect the fear of death.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 9:15
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