Simple verse list for WIS 19:21

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OET (OET-RV) On the contrary, flames didn’t consume flesh of perishable creatures that walked amongst them, ⇔ neither did they melt the crystalline grains of ambrosial food that were melted easily.

OET-LV ⟦Φλόγες⟧ ⟦ἀνάπαλιν⟧ ⟦εὐφθάρτων⟧ living_thing no ⟦ἐμάραναν⟧ flesh ⟦ἐμπεριπατούντων⟧, and_not ⟦τηκτὸν⟧ ⟦εὔτηκτον⟧ ⟦κρυσταλλοειδὲς⟧ family ⟦ἀμβροσίας⟧ food.

WEBBE On the contrary, flames didn’t consume flesh of perishable creatures that walked amongst them, ⇔ neither did they melt the crystalline grains of ambrosial food that were melted easily.

DRA On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of corruptible animals walking therein, neither did they melt that good food, which was apt to melt as ice. For in all things thou didst magnify thy people, O Lord, and didst honour them, and didst not despise them, but didst assist them at all times, and in every place.

RV Contrariwise, flames wasted not the flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them; ⇔ Neither [fn] melted they the [fn] ice-like grains of ambrosial food, that were of nature apt to melt.

KJB-1769 On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things, though they walked therein; neither melted they the icy kind of heavenly meat that was of nature apt to melt.

KJB-1611 On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible liuing things, though they walked therin, neither melted they the ycie kind of heauenly meate, that was of nature apt to melt.
(On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things, though they walked therein, neither melted they the ycie kind of heavenly meat, that was of nature apt to melt.)

Wycl Ayenward flawmes of corruptible beestis disesiden not the fleischis of Ebreis goynge togidere; nethir departiden that good mete, that was departid liytly as iys. Forsothe, Lord, thou magnefiedist thi puple in alle thingis, and onouridist; and dispisidist not, and helpidist hem in ech tyme and in ech place.
(Ayenward flames of corruptible beasts/animals disesiden not the flesh of Ebreis going together; neither departed that good meet, that was departed lightly as ice. For_certain/Truly, Lord, thou/you magnified thy/your people in all things, and honoured; and despised not, and helped hem in each time and in each place.)

BrLXX Φλόγες ἀνάπαλιν εὐφθάρτων ζώων οὐκ ἐμάραναν σάρκας ἐμπεριπατούντων, οὐδὲ τηκτὸν εὔτηκτον κρυσταλλοειδὲς γένος ἀμβροσίας τροφῆς.

BrTr On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things, though they walked therein; neither melted they the icy kind of heavenly meat, that was of nature apt to melt.