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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 13
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Beware that thou be not deceived and brought down in thy jollity.
- WEB
- Beware that you are not deceived and brought low in your enjoyment.
- DRC13:10
- Beware that thou be not deceived Into folly, and be humbled. Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived into folly.
- LXXE
- Beware that thou be not deceived, and brought down in thy jollity.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Πρόσεχε μὴ ἀποπλανηθῇς, καὶ μὴ ταπεινωθῇς ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ σου.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 13:10-11 in some Bibles
- 13:8a in most Bibles
- 13:8b in most Bibles