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Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,
    your burnt offerings are always before me.
I will not take a bullock from your house,
    or he-goats from your folds.(A)
10 For every animal of the forest is mine,
    beasts by the thousands on my mountains.
11 I know every bird in the heights;
    whatever moves in the wild is mine.
12 Were I hungry, I would not tell you,
    for mine is the world and all that fills it.(B)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
    or drink the blood of he-goats?

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I bring no charges(A) against you concerning your sacrifices
    or concerning your burnt offerings,(B) which are ever before me.
I have no need of a bull(C) from your stall
    or of goats(D) from your pens,(E)
10 for every animal of the forest(F) is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.(G)
11 I know every bird(H) in the mountains,
    and the insects in the fields(I) are mine.
12 If I were hungry I would not tell you,
    for the world(J) is mine, and all that is in it.(K)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
    or drink the blood of goats?

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23 The Most High is not pleased with the gifts of the godless,
    nor for their many sacrifices does he forgive their sins.

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'Sirach 34:23' not found for the version: New International Version.

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
    with myriad streams of oil?
[a] Shall I give my firstborn for my crime,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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Footnotes

  1. 6:7 The questions reach their climax with the possibility of child sacrifice, a practice known in antiquity (cf. 2 Kgs 16:3; 21:6).

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,(A)
    with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?(B)
Shall I offer my firstborn(C) for my transgression,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?(D)

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