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Sirach 27:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Don’t pursue him, for he has gone far away, and has escaped like a gazelle out of the snare. "

Sirach 27:20

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18 for as a man has destroyed his enemy, so you have destroyed the friendship of your neighbor.

19 As a bird which you have released out of your hand, so you have let your neighbor go, and you will not catch him again.

20 Don’t pursue him, for he has gone far away, and has escaped like a gazelle out of the snare.

21 For a wound may be bound up, and after abuse there may be reconciliation; but he who reveals secrets is without hope.

22 One who winks the eye contrives evil things; and those who know him will keep their distance.

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Proverbs 6:5

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"Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler."

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Psalms 71:11

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"saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”"

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Job 20:8

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"He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night."

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Psalms 124:7

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"Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped."

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Ecclesiastes 8:3

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"Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,"

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Deuteronomy 15:13

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"When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty."

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Sirach 27:1

"Many have sinned for profit. He who seeks to multiply wealth will turn his eye away."

Sirach 27:2

"As a nail will stick fast between the joinings of stones, so sin will thrust itself in between buying and selling."

Sirach 27:3

"Unless a person holds on diligently to the fear of the Lord, his house will be overthrown quickly."

Sirach 27:4

"In the shaking of a sieve, the refuse remains, so does the filth of man in his thoughts."

Sirach 27:5

"The furnace tests the potter’s vessels; so the test of a person is in his thoughts."

Sirach 27:6

"The fruit of a tree discloses its cultivation, so is the utterance of the thought of a person’s heart."

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