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Sirach 40:24 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Relatives and helpers are for a time of affliction, but almsgiving rescues better than both. "

Sirach 40:24

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22 Your eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than both.

23 A friend and a companion is always welcome, and a wife with her husband is better than both.

24 Relatives and helpers are for a time of affliction, but almsgiving rescues better than both.

25 Gold and silver will make the foot stand sure, and counsel is esteemed better than both.

26 Riches and strength will lift up the heart. The fear of the Lord is better than both. There is nothing lacking in the fear of the Lord. In it, there is no need to seek help.

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Sirach 40:1

"Great travail is created for every man. A heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day of their coming forth from their mother’s womb, until the day for their burial in the mother of all things."

Sirach 40:2

"The expectation of things to come, and the day of death, trouble their thoughts, and cause fear in their hearts."

Sirach 40:3

"From him who sits on a throne of glory, even to him who is humbled in earth and ashes,"

Sirach 40:4

"from him who wears purple and a crown, even to him who is clothed in burlap,"

Sirach 40:5

"there is wrath, jealousy, trouble, unrest, fear of death, anger, and strife. In the time of rest upon his bed, his night sleep changes his knowledge."

Sirach 40:6

"He gets little or no rest, and afterward in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, he is troubled in the vision of his heart, as one who has escaped from the front of battle."

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