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Sirach 25:8 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Happy is he who dwells with a wife of understanding, he who has not slipped with his tongue, and he who has not served a man who is unworthy of him. "
Sirach 25:8
Verse in Context
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6 Much experience is the crown of the aged. Their glory is the fear of the Lord.
7 There are nine things that I have thought of, and in my heart counted happy, and the tenth I will utter with my tongue: a man who has joy with his children, and a man who lives and sees the fall of his enemies.
8 Happy is he who dwells with a wife of understanding, he who has not slipped with his tongue, and he who has not served a man who is unworthy of him.
9 Happy is he who has found prudence, and he who speaks in the ears of those who listen.
10 How great is he who has found wisdom! Yet there is none greater than one who fears the Lord.
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Sirach 25:1
"I enjoy three things, and they are beautiful before the Lord and men: the agreement of kindred, the friendship of neighbors, and a woman and her husband who walk together in agreement."
Sirach 25:2
"But my soul hates three sorts of people, and I am greatly offended at their life: a poor man who is arrogant, a rich man who is a liar, and an old fool who is an adulterer."
Sirach 25:3
"If you gathered nothing in your youth, how could you find anything in your old age?"
Sirach 25:4
"How beautiful a thing is judgment in the gray-haired, and for elders to know good counsel!"
Sirach 25:5
"How beautiful is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men who are in honor!"
Sirach 25:6
"Much experience is the crown of the aged. Their glory is the fear of the Lord."
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