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WisdomSirach 35:1–11
Sirach 35:1–11 links worship with obedience, mercy, and giving. The passage speaks about offerings at the altar, but it also describes everyday faithfulness, turning from evil, and generous gifts as part of honouring the Lord.
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WisdomSirach 35:12–20
This wisdom passage says the Lord cannot be bribed or swayed by status. It highlights his care for people who are wronged, poor, fatherless, widowed, and humble, then ends by speaking of both righteous judgement and mercy.
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WisdomSirach 36:18–26
Sirach 36:18–26 is a set of wisdom sayings about discernment, speech, and the value of a supportive household.
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WisdomSirach 37:1–6
Sirach 37:1–6 warns that spoken friendship is not always loyal friendship. These sayings contrast empty claims, painful betrayal, and the duty to remember a true friend.
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WisdomSirach 37:16–26
Sirach 37:16–26 teaches that counsel should come before action. It compares empty cleverness with wisdom that truly helps the speaker and also benefits other people.
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WisdomSirach 37:27–31
This wisdom passage calls for honest self-examination and self-control. It begins with noticing what is harmful, then narrows to appetite, warning against greed in luxury and overeating.
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WisdomSirach 38:16–23
Sirach 38:16–23 gives practical wisdom for times of grief. It says mourning and burial matter, yet it also warns against letting sorrow take over the heart and strength.
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WisdomSirach 38:24–39:11
This wisdom passage contrasts necessary manual labour with the scribe’s work of study and prayer.
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WisdomSirach 39:12–35
In this part of Sirach, the writer calls God’s people to praise the Lord by looking at his works.
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WisdomSirach 40:1–11
Sirach 40:1–11 describes the weight many people feel in life. It speaks of burden, fear, broken rest, calamity, and death, and says these are not limited to one class of people.
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WisdomSirach 40:12–17
This wisdom passage contrasts what fades away with what lasts. It warns that bribery, injustice and the goods of the unjust do not endure, while good faith, kindness and almsgiving are pictured as lasting and fruitful.
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WisdomSirach 40:18–27
Sirach 40:18–27 sets good things side by side and then ranks them. It praises ordinary gifts, yet keeps pointing beyond them, ending with its fullest praise for the fear of the Lord.
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WisdomSirach 40:28–30
These verses from Sirach give blunt wisdom about begging, eating from another person’s table, and the painful outcome the teacher describes.
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WisdomSirach 41:1–4
Sirach 41:1–4 speaks directly to death as wisdom, not as a story. It notices that people do not all feel the same about death, then urges readers to remember that death comes to all.
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WisdomSirach 41:5–13
Sirach 41:5–13 is a wisdom warning about ungodliness and its lasting effects. It contrasts the shame linked with sin and the lasting value of a good name, urging careful attention to how a person lives before God.
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WisdomSirach 41:14–42:8
Sirach sorts shame carefully. Some shame is fitting because it exposes wrongdoing, while other shame is misplaced because it keeps people from truth, justice, honest dealings, and needed correction.
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WisdomSirach 42:9–14
This wisdom passage speaks with strong anxiety about daughters and women. A careful reading helps us notice its repeated fears, its commands, and the severe comparisons it makes without turning these sayings into a story.
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WisdomSirach 42:15–25
Sirach 42:15–25 praises the Lord by looking at creation and at what God knows. The passage moves from speaking about God’s works to showing that his wisdom orders everything and that his glory can be seen throughout creation.
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WisdomSirach 43:1–12
Sirach 43:1-12 points to the sky, sun, moon, stars, and rainbow as reasons to notice and praise God.
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WisdomSirach 43:13–26
This wisdom passage praises God’s rule over snow, storm, frost and sea. Sirach describes both beauty and danger in creation, and repeatedly says these things act by God’s command, will, counsel and word.
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WisdomSirach 43:27–33
Sirach 43:27–33 says that human praise cannot fully match the Lord’s greatness. This wisdom passage urges people to glorify him strongly, while admitting that his greatness and works go beyond what people can completely say or see.
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WisdomSirach 44:1–15
In this wisdom passage from Sirach, a Catholic additional book, the speaker calls for praise of earlier generations.
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WisdomSirach 44:16–18
Sirach 44:16–18 names Enoch and Noah in brief, weighty lines. Enoch “pleased the Lord” and became “an example of repentance”.
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WisdomSirach 44:19–23
Sirach praises God’s covenant by naming Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in order. The passage highlights faithfulness, blessing, inheritance, and the way God’s assurance continued through the family line into the twelve tribes.
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