Parallel SIR 23:12

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BrLXX Ἔστι λέξις ἀντιπεριβεβλημένη θανάτῳ, μὴ εὑρεθήτω ἐν κληρονομίᾳ Ἰακώβ· ἀπὸ γὰρ εὐσεβῶν ταῦτα πάντα ἀποστήσεται, καὶ ἐν ἁμαρτίαις οὐκ ἐγκυλισθήσονται.
(Esti lexis antiperibeblaʸmenaʸ thanatōi, maʸ heurethaʸtō en klaʸronomia Yakōb; apo gar eusebōn tauta panta apostaʸsetai, kai en hamartiais ouk egkulisthaʸsontai. )

BrTr There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.

WEBBE ⇔ There is a manner of speech that is clothed with death.
⇔ Let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob,
⇔ for all these things will be far from the godly,
⇔ and they will not wallow in sins.

KJB-1611 There is a word that is clothed about with death: God graunt that it be not found in the heritage of Iacob, for all such things shall be farre from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sinnes.
(There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Yacob, for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.)