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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 19
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it: and if he have done it, that he do it no more.
- WEB
- Question a friend; it may be he didn’t do it. If he did something, it may be that he may do it no more.
- DRC
- Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more.
- LXXE
- Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it: and if he have done it, that he do it no more.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Ἔλεγξον φίλον, μήποτε οὐκ ἐποίησε, καὶ εἴ τι ἐποίησε, μήποτε προσθῇ.