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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 31
In 4 translations
- KJV
- He that loveth gold shall not be justified, and he that followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.
- WEB
- He who loves gold won’t be justified. He who follows destruction will himself have his fill of it.
- DRC
- He that loveth gold, shall not be justified: and he that followeth after corruption, shall be filled with it.
- LXXE
- Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: and the heart fancieth, as a woman's heart in travail.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Μαντεῖαι καὶ οἰωνισμοὶ καὶ ἐνύπνια, μάταιά ἐστι, καὶ ὡς ὠδινούσης φαντάζεται καρδία.