2 Maccabees 2:31 — compare Bible translations

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OET (OET-RV) but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a laboured fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him who’d bring a writing into a new form.

Draft grammatical colours: khaki:verbs, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object. Colours indicate agreement between available Greek form analyses; grammar in this passage has not been reviewed. Uncertain words remain uncoloured.

BrLXX Τὸ δὲ σύντομον τῆς λέξεως μεταδιώκειν, καὶ τὸ ἐξεργαστικὸν τῆς πραγματείας παραιτεῖσθαι, τῷ τὴν μετάφρασιν ποιουμένῳ συγχωρητέον.
(To de suntomon taʸs lexeōs metadiōkein, kai to exergastikon taʸs pragmateias paraiteisthai, tōi taʸn metafrasin poioumenōi sugⱪōraʸteon.)

BrTr but to use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is to be granted to him that will make an abridgement.

WEBBE but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a laboured fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him who would bring a writing into a new form.

DRA (MA2 2:32) But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.

RV but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a laboured fulness in the treatment, is to be granted to him that would bring a writing into a new form.
(but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a laboured fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him that would bring a writing into a new form.)

KJB-1769 But to use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is to be granted to him that will make an abridgment.

KJB-1611 But to vse breuitie, and auoyde much labouring of the worke, is to bee granted to him that will make an abridgement.
(But to use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is to be granted to him that will make an abridgement.)

Wycl (MA2 2:32) forsothe for to sue schortnesse of seiyng, and for to eschewe out suyngis of thingis, is to be grauntid to the breggere.
(for_certain/truly for to sue shortness of saying, and for to avoid out suyngis of things, is to be granted to the abridger.)

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