Parallel SIR 4:1

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B I ◄ ↨ Sir 4:1 ↓ → ► ©

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

OET (OET-RV) My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living.
⇔ Don’t make the needy eyes wait long.

BrLXX Τέκνον, τὴν ζωὴν τοῦ πτωχοῦ μὴ ἀποστερήσῃς, καὶ μὴ παρελκύσῃς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπιδεεῖς.
(Teknon, taʸn zōaʸn tou ptōⱪou maʸ aposteraʸsaʸs, kai maʸ parelkusaʸs ofthalmous epideʼeis. )

BrTr My son, defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.

WEBBE My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living.
⇔ Don’t make the needy eyes wait long.

DRA Son, defraud not the poor of alms, and turn not away thy eyes from the poor.

RV My son, deprive not the poor of his living,
⇔ And make not the needy eyes to wait long.

KJB-1769 My son, defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.

KJB-1611 ¶ My sonne, defraude not the poore of his liuing, and make not the needy eies to waite long.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Wycl Sone, defraude thou not the almes of a pore man, and turne not ouere thin iyen fro a pore man.
(Son, defraud thou/you not the alms/donations of a poor man, and turn not over thin eyes from a poor man.)