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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 34
In 4 translations
- KJV
- If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation, set not thy heart upon them.
- WEB
- If they are not sent in a visitation from the Most High, don’t give your heart to them.
- DRC
- And the heart fancieth as that of a woman in travail: except it be a vision sent forth from the most High, set no thy heart upon them.
- LXXE
- Gold hath been the ruin of many, and their destruction was present.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Πολλοὶ ἐδόθησαν εἰς πτῶμα χάριν χρυσίου, καὶ ἐγενήθη ἀπώλεια αὐτῶν κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν.