Good News Translation
from suffocation in oppressive smoke rising from fires that I did not light;

New Revised Standard Version
from choking fire on every side, and from the midst of fire that I had not kindled,

Contemporary English Version
I was surrounded by fires they had set, and I could not breathe for the smoke. *

New American Bible
from flames that beset me on every side, From the midst of fire till there was not a whiff of it,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou hast delivered me, according to the multitude of the mercy of thy name, from them that did roar, prepared to devour.

And thou hast delivered me, according to the multitude of the mercy of thy name, from them that did roar, prepared to devour.

Sirach 51:2
I will give glory to thy name: for thou hast been a helper and protector to me.

Sirach 51:3
And hast preserved my body from destruction, from the snare of an unjust tongue, and from the lips of them that forge lies, and in the sight of them that stood by, thou hast been my helper.

Sirach 51:5
Out of the hands of them that sought my life, and from the gates of afflictions, which compassed me about:

Sirach 51:6
From the oppression of the flame which surrounded me, and in the midst of the fire I was not burnt.