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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 22
In 4 translations
- KJV
- A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up will shake his hand.
- WEB
- A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill. Anyone who picks it up will shake it out of his hand.
- DRC
- The sluggard is pelted with the dung of oxen: and every one that toucheth him will shake his hands.
- LXXE
- A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up will shake his hand.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Βολβίτῳ κοπρίων συνεβλήθη ὀκνηρὸς, πᾶς ὁ ἀναιρούμενος αὐτὸν ἐκτινάξει χεῖρα.