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Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 17:31

In 4 translations

KJV
What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof faileth; and flesh and blood will imagine evil.
WEB
What is brighter than the sun? Yet even this can be eclipsed. So flesh and blood devise evil.
DRC17:30
What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this shall be reproved.
LXXE
What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof faileth: and flesh and blood will imagine evil.

Original-language editions

LXX-Br
Τί φωτεινότερον ἡλίου; καὶ τοῦτο ἐκλείπει, καὶ πονηρὸς ἐνθυμηθήσεται σάρκα καὶ αἷμα.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 17:30 in some Bibles
  • 17:31 in most Bibles

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