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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 13
In 4 translations
- KJV
- As the proud hate humility: so doth the rich abhor the poor.
- WEB
- Lowliness is an abomination to a proud man; likewise a poor man is an abomination to the rich.
- DRC13:24
- And as humility is an abomination to the proud: so also the rich man abhorreth the poor.
- LXXE
- As the proud hate humility: so doth the rich abhor the poor.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Βδέλυγμα ὑπερηφάνῳ ταπεινότης, οὕτως βδέλυγμα πλουσίῳ πτωχός.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 13:24 in some Bibles
- 13:20 in most Bibles