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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 19
In 4 translations
- KJV
- A labouring man that is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.
- WEB
- A worker who is a drunkard will not become rich. He who despises small things will fall little by little.
- DRC
- A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little.
- LXXE
- A labouring man that is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Ἐργάτης μέθυσος οὐ πλουτισθήσεται, ὁ ἐξουθενῶν τὰ ὀλίγα κατὰ μικρὸν πεσεῖται.