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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 40
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both corn while it is green.
- WEB
- Your eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than both.
- DRC
- Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green sown fields.
- LXXE
- Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both the first sprouting of corn.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Χάριν καὶ κάλλος ἐπιθυμήσει ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου, καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀμφότερα χλόην σπόρου.