Sirach 24:17

17 Gracious favor was the leaf that I put forth like a vine, and honor and wealth were the fruit that my blossoms bore.

Sirach 24:17 In-Context

15 Like cinnamon and camel's thorn used for spices, I gave off a fine aroma. Like choice myrrh, I spread forth my fragrance, like galbanum, onycha, and stacte, and like the smell of frankincense in the tent.

16 Like a terebinth oak I spread out my branches, and my branches were glorious and graceful.

17 Gracious favor was the leaf that I put forth like a vine, and honor and wealth were the fruit that my blossoms bore.

19 "Come to me, you who desire me, and take your fill of my produce.

Footnotes

• [a] LXXb adds 24:18 I am the mother of beautiful love, of awe, of knowledge, and of devout hope, and I grant them, together with all things, to my children eternally generated gifts, to those whom God chooses.