Sirach

How to use Sirach in a sentence

• The son of Sirach says that he would rather dwell with a lion and a dragon than to keep house with a wicked woman.

  How to be Happy Though Married | E. J. Hardy.

• Sirach's proverbs are directed against the possibility of a revolution in the sacred order.

  History of the Jews, Vol. I (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz

• Sirach stung with the lash of sarcasm the arrogance, deceit and lust of the rich Hellenists, who worshipped Mammon.

  History of the Jews, Vol. I (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz

• Sirach declared that the root of all this evil was the indifference of the Judans to their sacred Law.

  History of the Jews, Vol. I (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz

• I should not wonder if his view of human nature, like Machiavelli's, was taken from this Son of Sirach.

  The Confidence-Man | Herman Melville