| DB1 | | Caution. Sir.11.7-28 | KNSB Contents | notes| 11 | katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE | Passage | Old Testament in Greek (Septuagint) |
| 7 | Do not find fault before you investigate; first consider, and then reprove. | Caution. Sir.11.7-28 | |
| 8 | Do not answer before you have heard, nor interrupt a speaker in the midst of his words. | ||
| 9 | Do not argue about a matter which does not concern you, nor sit with sinners when they judge a case. | ||
| 10 | My son, do not busy yourself with many matters; if you multiply activities you will not go unpunished, and if you pursue you will not overtake, and by fleeing you will not escape. | ||
| 11 | There is a man who works, and toils, and presses on, but is so much the more in want. | ||
| 12 | There is another who is slow and needs help, who lacks strength and abounds in poverty; but the eyes of the Lord look upon him for his good; he lifts him out of his low estate | ||
| 13 | and raises up his head, so that many are amazed at him. | ||
| 14 | Good things and bad, life and death, poverty and wealth, come from the Lord. | ||
| 17 | The gift of the Lord endures for those who are godly, and what he approves will have lasting success. | ||
| 18 | There is a man who is rich through his diligence and self-denial, and this is the reward allotted to him: | ||
| 19 | when he says, "I have found rest, and now I shall enjoy my goods!" he does not know how much time will pass until he leaves them to others and dies. | ||
| 20 | Stand by your covenant and attend to it, and grow old in your work. | ||
| 21 | Do not wonder at the works of a sinner, but trust in the Lord and keep at your toil; for it is easy in the sight of the Lord to enrich a poor man quickly and suddenly. | ||
| 22 | The blessing of the Lord is the reward of the godly, and quickly God causes his blessing to flourish. | ||
| 23 | Do not say, "What do I need, and what prosperity could be mine in the future?" | ||
| 24 | Do not say, "I have enough, and what calamity could happen to me in the future?" | ||
| 25 | In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten, and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered. | ||
| 26 | For it is easy in the sight of the Lord to reward a man on the day of death according to his conduct. | ||
| 27 | The misery of an hour makes one forget luxury, and at the close of a man's life his deeds will be revealed. | ||
| 28 | Call no one happy before his death; a man will be known through his children. | ||