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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 21
In 4 translations
- KJV
- As is a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense.
- WEB
- As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool. The knowledge of an unwise man is talk without sense.Gr. unexamined words.
- DRC21:21
- As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as words without sense.
- LXXE
- As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Ὡς οἶκος ἠφανισμένος οὕτως μωρῷ σοφία· καὶ γνῶσις ἀσυνέτου, ἀδιεξέταστοι λόγοι.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 21:21 in some Bibles
- 21:18 in most Bibles