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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 2

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 2:12

In 4 translations

KJV
Woe be to fearful hearts, and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth two ways!
WEB
Woe to fearful hearts, to faint hands, and to the sinner who goes two ways!
DRC2:14
Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.
LXXE
Woe be to fearful hearts, and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth two ways!

Original-language editions

LXX-Br
Οὐαὶ καρδίαις δειλαῖς, καὶ χερσὶ παρειμέναις, καὶ ἁμαρτωλῷ ἐπιβαίνοντι ἐπὶ δύο τρίβους.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 2:14 in some Bibles
  • 2:12 in most Bibles

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