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12 The righteous flourish like the palm tree
    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.(A)

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12 The righteous will flourish(A) like a palm tree,
    they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;(B)

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His shoots shall spread out;
    his beauty shall be like the olive tree
    and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.(A)

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    his young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,(A)
    his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.(B)

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13 Listen to me, my faithful children, and blossom
    like a rose growing by a stream of water.(A)

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'Sirach 39:13' not found for the version: New International Version.

like roses in the days of the spring harvest,
    like lilies by springs of water,
    like a green shoot on Lebanon on a summer day,(A)

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'Sirach 50:8' not found for the version: New International Version.

12 When he received the portions from the hands of the priests,
    as he stood by the hearth of the altar
with a garland of brothers around him,
    he was like a young cedar on Lebanon
    surrounded by the trunks of palm trees.(A)

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'Sirach 50:12' not found for the version: New International Version.