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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 33
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Why doth one day excel another, when as all the light of every day in the year is of the sun?
- WEB
- Why does one day excel another, when all the light of every day in the year is from the sun?
- DRC
- Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun?
- LXXE
- Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath: take away the adversary, and destroy the enemy.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- δόξασον χεῖρα καὶ βραχίονα δεξιόν· ἔγειρον θυμὸν, καὶ ἔκχεον ὀργήν· ἔξαρον ἀντίδικον, καὶ ἔκτριψον ἐχθρόν.