Sirach 4:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ Do not avert your eye from the needy, nor give a man occasion to curse you;

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Common English Bible

⁵ Don’t turn your eyes away from someone begging, and don’t give anyone an opportunity to curse you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ You should not avert your eyes from the needy out of anger. And you should not abandon those who seek help from you, so that they speak curses behind your back.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Turn not away thy eyes from the poor for fear of anger: and leave not to them that ask of thee to curse thee behind thy back.

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

⁵ Don’t turn your eye away from one who asks. Give no occasion to a man to curse you.

Sirach 4:5 Cross References