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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 31
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease breaketh sleep,
- WEB
- Wakeful anxiety will crave slumber. In a severe disease, sleep will be broken.
- DRC
- The thinking beforehand turneth away the understanding, and a grievous sickness maketh the soul sober.
- LXXE
- Whoso regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Ὡς δρασσόμενος σκιᾶς καὶ διώκων ἄνεμον, οὕτως ὁ ἐπέχων ἐνυπνίοις.