Sirach 51:26
Good News Translation
Put on the yoke, and be willing to learn. The opportunity is always near.

New Revised Standard Version
Put your neck under her yoke, and let your souls receive instruction; it is to be found close by.

Contemporary English Version
and you need not travel far. You just have to be willing to do what she says.

New American Bible
Take her yoke upon your neck; that your mind may receive her teaching. For she is close to those who seek her, and the one who is in earnest finds her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I stretched forth my hands on high, and I bewailed my ignorance of her.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I stretched forth my hands on high, and I bewailed my ignorance of her.

Sirach 51:24
For I have determined to follow her: I have had a zeal for good, and shall not be confounded.

Sirach 51:25
My soul hath wrestled for her, and in doing it I have been confirmed.

Sirach 51:27
I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge I found her.

Sirach 51:28
I possessed my heart with her from the beginning: therefore I shall not be forsaken.

Context
Sirach 51
25My soul hath wrestled for her, and in doing it I have been confirmed. 26I stretched forth my hands on high, and I bewailed my ignorance of her. 27I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge I found her.…
Cross References
Sirach 51:24
For I have determined to follow her: I have had a zeal for good, and shall not be confounded.

Sirach 51:25
My soul hath wrestled for her, and in doing it I have been confirmed.

Sirach 51:27
I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge I found her.

Sirach 51:28
I possessed my heart with her from the beginning: therefore I shall not be forsaken.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 51:25
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