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Background and recordsSirach – translator’s prologue (unnumbered)
This editorial preface explains why the translator values this book, why he translated it, and why he asks readers for patience.
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WisdomSirach 16:1–16 (source bridge 15–16)
Sirach 16:1–14 warns against trusting in numbers, whether in a family or a crowd. The passage says godliness, understanding, mercy, and God’s just judgement matter more than how many people there are.
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WisdomSirach 19:13–19 (source bridge 18–19)
Sirach 19:13–17 gives practical wisdom for handling accusations and harmful speech. Rather than rushing to believe or threaten someone, it teaches careful questioning, restraint, and correction shaped by the law of the Most High.
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WisdomSirach 26:13–27 (source bridge 19–27)
This wisdom passage from Sirach, a book in the Catholic additional books, praises qualities seen in a wife.
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WisdomSirach 1:1–10
This passage begins by placing wisdom with the Lord. Through searching questions and vivid comparisons, it shows that wisdom is beyond human control and is given by God to creation as his gift.
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WisdomSirach 1:11–21
Sirach 1:11–20 presents reverence for the Lord as wisdom’s beginning, fullness, crown, and root.
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WisdomSirach 1:22–24
This short wisdom passage contrasts two ways of responding. It warns that unjust anger destroys a person, then praises patience, self-control and careful speech that waits for the right time.
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WisdomSirach 1:25–30
Sirach 1:25–30 links wisdom with obedience, humility and truthful speech. The passage warns that wanting wisdom is not enough if a person approaches the Lord with pride, deceit or outward religion that hides an unfaithful heart.
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WisdomSirach 2:1–18
Sirach 2:1–18 teaches that serving the Lord includes testing, delay and humiliation. This wisdom passage calls readers to steady trust, patient endurance and humble obedience, while also warning against divided, fearful unbelief.
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WisdomSirach 3:1–16
Sirach 3:1–16 is wisdom teaching spoken as a father’s instruction to children. It calls children to honour both father and mother, and it gives special attention to caring for parents when they grow old or become weaker.
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WisdomSirach 3:17–29
Sirach 3:17–29 teaches humble conduct in work and in status. It shows that those who are greater should humble themselves more, and it warns that pride, conceit and stubbornness turn people away from wisdom.
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WisdomSirach 3:30–4:10
This wisdom passage links generosity with how a person treats vulnerable people. Giving matters, but so do timing, speech, humility, and action when someone is poor, distressed, or wronged.
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WisdomSirach 4:11–19
This wisdom passage describes Wisdom as if she were a person who teaches, tests and guides.
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WisdomSirach 4:20–31
Sirach 4:20–31 teaches that shame is not always the same. Some shame leads a person into wrong, while another kind belongs with grace.
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WisdomSirach 5:1–8
Sirach 5:1-8 warns against false confidence. It speaks to people who trust wealth, their own desires, or delayed judgement, and it urges a prompt return to the Lord instead of assuming there will always be more time.
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WisdomSirach 5:9–6:1
This wisdom passage warns against unstable speech. It links double-tongued words with shame, but it also shows a better way: steady understanding, careful listening, patient answers, and silence when a person does not know what to say.
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WisdomSirach 6:2–4
Sirach warns that self-exalting pride is not strength. In three sharp images, these verses show a person trusting their own inner counsel, then suffering ruin, emptiness, and disgrace because of that wickedness.
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WisdomSirach 6:5–17
This wisdom passage weighs words, caution and loyalty. It begins with pleasant speech, then warns that not every friendly person will stay, and finally praises the rare value of a faithful friend.
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WisdomSirach 6:18–31
Sirach 6:18–31 urges a learner to accept wisdom’s discipline early and keep pursuing it. The passage speaks in vivid pictures of farming, weight, chains and clothing to show that wisdom may feel hard at first but leads to rest and honour.
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WisdomSirach 6:32–37
This wisdom passage teaches a practical path towards understanding. It begins with willingness, moves to careful listening and wise company, and ends with steady meditation on the Lord’s commandments.
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WisdomSirach 7:1–17
Sirach 7:1–17 is a set of wisdom sayings that warns against wrongdoing, proud ambition, careless speech, and false religious confidence.
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WisdomSirach 7:18–28
Sirach 7:18–28 gives brief wisdom instructions for everyday relationships. In a few lines, it speaks about friends, marriage, workers, children, and parents, urging conduct that values people properly and acts with care.
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WisdomSirach 7:29–36
Sirach 7:29–36 gathers short commands about honouring God, supporting his ministers, helping the poor, and staying close to people in grief or sickness.
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WisdomSirach 8:1–9
Sirach 8:1–9 gives brief warnings about restraint in conflict and careful respect for others.
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