Sirach 31:31 — compare Bible translations

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OET (OET-RV) ⇔ Don’t rebuke your neighbour at a banquet of wine.
⇔ Don’t despise him in his mirth.
⇔ Don’t speak a word of reproach to him.
⇔ Don’t distress him by making demands of him.

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

WEBBE ⇔ Don’t rebuke your neighbour at a banquet of wine.
⇔ Don’t despise him in his mirth.
⇔ Don’t speak a word of reproach to him.
⇔ Don’t distress him by making demands of him.

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RV ⇔ Rebuke not thy neighbour at a banquet of wine,
⇔ Neither set him at nought in his mirth:
⇔ Speak not unto him a word of reproach,
⇔ And press not upon him by asking back a debt.
( ⇔ Rebuke not thy/your neighbour at a banquet of wine,
⇔ Neither set him at naught/nothing in his mirth:
⇔ Speak not unto him a word of reproach,
⇔ And press not upon him by asking back a debt. )

KJB-1769 Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in his mirth: give him no despiteful words, and press not upon him with urging him to drink.
(Rebuke not thy/your neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in his mirth: give him no despiteful words, and press not upon him with urging him to drink.)

KJB-1611 Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in his mirth: giue him no despitefull words, and presse not vpon him with vrging him (to drinke.)
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

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Parallel SIR 31:31