Common English Bible

Sirach 22:1-5 Common English Bible (CEB)

1. People who are afraid to actare like filthy stones;everyone will hiss at their dishonor.

2. People who are afraid to actare like clumps of cow manure;those who pick it upwill shake off their hand.

3. An uneducated son is a disgraceto a father,and a daughter’s birth is a liability.

4. A prudent daughterwill get a husband of her own,and a daughter in disgraceis a grief to her parents.

5. A disrespectful daughtershames her father and her husband,and both will despise her.