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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 31
In 4 translations
- KJV
- If thou sit at a bountiful table, be not greedy upon it, and say not, There is much meat on it.
- WEB
- Do you sit at a great table? Don’t be greedy there. Don’t say, “There is a lot of food on it!”
- DRC31:13
- Art thou set at a great table? be not the first to open thy mouth upon it. Say not: There are many things which are upon it.
- LXXE
- I was oft-times in danger of death: yet I was delivered because of these things.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Πλεονάκις ἕως θανάτου ἐκινδύνευσα, καὶ διεσώθην τούτων χάριν.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 31:12-13 in some Bibles
- 31:12a in most Bibles
- 31:12b in most Bibles