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Read›Wisdom of Solomon›Chapter 15
In 4 translations
- KJV
- For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter’s fruitless labour;
- WEB
- For we weren’t led astray by any evil plan of men’s, nor yet by painters’ fruitless labor, a form stained with varied colors,
- DRC
- For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours,
- LXXE
- For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter's fruitless labour;
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Οὔτε γὰρ ἐπλάνησεν ἡμᾶς ἀνθρώπων κακότεχνος ἐπίνοια, οὐδὲ σκιαγράφων πόνος ἄκαρπος, εἶδος σπιλωθὲν χρώμασι διηλλαγμένοις.