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LXX2012

Sirach 17:31

What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof fails; and flesh and blood will imagine evil.

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof faileth: and flesh and blood will imagine evil.
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
KJVView canonical →
What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof faileth; and flesh and blood will imagine evil.
King James Version
WEBView canonical →
What is brighter than the sun? Yet even this can be eclipsed. So flesh and blood devise evil.
World English Bible
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