Parallel SIR 34:4

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B I ◄ ← Sir 34:4 ↓ → ► ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) From an unclean thing what can be cleansed?
⇔ From that which is false what can be true?

BrLXX ἐκοπίασε πτωχὸς ἐν ἐλαττώσει βίου, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀναπαύσει ἐπιδεὴς γίνεται.
(ekopiase ptōⱪos en elattōsei biou, kai en taʸ anapausei epideaʸs ginetai. )

BrTr The poor laboureth in his poor estate; and when he leaveth off, he is still needy.

WEBBE From an unclean thing what can be cleansed?
⇔ From that which is false what can be true?

DRA What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?

RV Of an unclean thing what shall be cleansed?
⇔ And of that which is false what shall be true?

KJB-1769 Of an unclean thing what can be cleansed? and from that thing which is false what truth can come?

KJB-1611 Of an vncleane thing, what can be cleansed? and from that thing which is false, what trueth can come?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Wycl What schal be clensid of him that is vnclene, and what trewe thing schal be seid of a liere?
(What shall be cleansed of him that is unclean, and what trewe thing shall be said of a liare?)