Sirach 25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Sirach 25Those Who Are Worthy of Praise

1

agreement among brothers and sisters, friendship among neighbors,

and a wife and a husband who live in harmony.

2

who does not slip with the tongue

and who has not become enslaved to an inferior.

9 Some Extreme Forms of Evil

13 worse than a snake’s venom

and no anger worse than a woman’s wrath.

The Evil of a Wicked Woman

16 among the neighbors,

and he cannot help sighing bitterly.

19

22There is wrath and impudence and great disgrace

when a wife supports her husband.

23 Job 4.3, 4; Isa 35.3; Heb 12.12 Dejected mind, gloomy face,

and wounded heart come from an evil wife.

Drooping hands and weak knees

come from the wife who does not make her husband happy.

24 Gen 3.6; Rom 5.12; 1 Tim 2.14 From a woman sin had its beginning,

and because of her we all die.

25 Prov 17.14 Allow no outlet to water

and no boldness of speech to an evil wife.

26 Deut 24.1; Mt 19.7 If she does not go as you direct,

separate her from yourself.

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