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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 34
In 4 translations
- KJV
- The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood.
- WEB
- The bread of the needy is the life of the poor. He who deprives him of it is a man of blood.
- DRC34:25
- The bread of the needy, is the life of the poor: he that defraudeth them thereof, is a man of blood.
- LXXE34:25
- Shew not thy valiantness in wine; for wine hath destroyed many.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br34:25
- Ἐν οἴνῳ μὴ ἀνδρίζου, πολλοὺς γὰρ ἀπώλεσεν ὁ οἶνος·
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 34:25 in some Bibles
- 34:21 in most Bibles