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Sirach 23:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" This man will be punished in the streets of the city. He will be seized where he least expects it. "
Sirach 23:21
Verse in Context
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19 The eyes of men are his terror. He doesn’t know that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, seeing all the ways of men, and looking into secret places.
20 All things were known to him before they were created, and also after they were completed.
21 This man will be punished in the streets of the city. He will be seized where he least expects it.
22 So also is a wife who leaves her husband, and produces an heir by another man.
23 For first, she was disobedient in the law of the Most High. Second, she trespassed against her own husband. Third, she played the adulteress in fornication, and had children by another man.
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Sirach 23:1
"O Lord, Father and Master of my life, don’t abandon me to their counsel. Don’t let me fall because of them."
Sirach 23:2
"Who will set scourges over my thought, and a discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not for my errors, and not overlook their sins?"
Sirach 23:3
"Otherwise my errors might be multiplied, and my sins abound, I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me."
Sirach 23:4
"O Lord, Father and God of my life, don’t give me a haughty eyes,"
Sirach 23:5
"and turn away evil desire from me."
Sirach 23:6
"Let neither gluttony nor lust overtake me. Don’t give me over to a shameless mind."
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