Sirach stung with the lash of sarcasm the arrogance, deceit and lust of the rich Hellenists, who worshipped Mammon.
Sirach (5:13) says: “Honor and shame are in talk; and the tongue of man is his fall.”
In the middle of the Epistle there is very little that strongly recalls the son of Sirach.
Sirach (2:13) speaks of the sinner coming to two paths and being unable to choose.
"Ante mortem ne laudes hominem," saith the son of Sirach, xi.
