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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 6
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Thou shalt eat up thy leaves, and lose thy fruit, and leave thyself as a dry tree.
- WEB
- You will eat up your leaves, destroy your fruit, and leave yourself like a dry tree.
- DRC
- And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit: and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness.
- LXXE
- Thou shalt eat up thy leaves, and lose thy fruit, and leave thyself as a dry tree.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Τὰ φύλλα σου καταφάγεσαι, καὶ τοὺς καρπούς σου ἀπολέσεις, καὶ ἀφήσεις σεαυτὸν ὡς ξύλον ξηρόν.