Sirach 27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Sirach 27

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and those who seek to get rich will avert their eyes.

2 the thoughts of the human mind.

7Do not praise anyone before he speaks,

for this is the way people are tested.

Reward and Retribution

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so you have destroyed the friendship of your neighbor.

19 Ps 91.3; 124.7 And as you allow a bird to escape from your hand,

so you have let your neighbor go and will not catch him again.

20 Prov 6.5 Do not go after him, for he is too far off

and has escaped like a gazelle from a snare.

21 Sir 22.22 For a wound may be bandaged,

and there is reconciliation after abuse,

but whoever has betrayed secrets is without hope.

Hypocrisy and Retribution

22 Prov 6.13, 14; 10.10 Whoever winks the eye plots harm,

and those who know such a one will keep their distance.

23 Ps 28.3; 55.21 In your presence their mouths are all sweetness,

and they admire your words,

but later they will twist their speech

and with your own words they will cause a scandal.

24 Ps 12.2, 3 I have hated many things but them above all;

even the Lord hates them.

25Those who throw a stone straight up throw it on their own heads,

and a treacherous blow opens up many wounds.

26 Ps 7.15; 9.15; 35.8 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,

and whoever sets a snare will be caught in it.

27If people do evil, it will roll back upon them,

and they will not know where it came from.

28 v 10 ; Sir 28.23Mockery and abuse issue from the proud,

but vengeance lies in wait for them like a lion.

29 Ps 112.10 Those who rejoice in the fall of the godly will be caught in a snare,

and pain will consume them before their death.

Anger and Vengeance

30Anger and wrath, these also are abominations,

yet a sinner holds on to them.