WIS 13:1 Parallel Verse View

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

OET (OET-RV) For truly all men who had no perception of God were foolish by nature,
⇔ and didn’t gain power to know him who exists from the good things that are seen.
⇔ They didn’t recognise the architect from his works.

BrLXX Μάταιοι μὲν γὰρ πάντες ἄνθρωποι φύσει, οἷς παρῆν Θεοῦ ἀγνωσία, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὁρομένων ἀγαθῶν οὐκ ἴσχυσαν εἰδέναι τὸν ὄντα, οὔτε τοῖς ἔργοις προσχόντες ἐπέγνωσαν τὸν τεχνίτην.
(Mataioi men gar pantes anthrōpoi fusei, hois paraʸn Theou agnōsia, kai ek tōn horomenōn agathōn ouk isⱪusan eidenai ton onta, oute tois ergois prosⱪontes epegnōsan ton teⱪnitaʸn. )

BrTr Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

WEBBE For truly all men who had no perception of God were foolish by nature,
⇔ and didn’t gain power to know him who exists from the good things that are seen.
⇔ They didn’t recognise the architect from his works.

DRA But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman:

RV For verily all men by nature [fn] were but vain who had no perception of God,
⇔ And from the good things that are seen they gained not power to know him that is,
⇔ Neither by giving heed to the works did they recognise the artificer;
(For verily/truly all men by nature were but vain who had no perception of God,
⇔ And from the good things that are seen they gained not power to know him that is,
⇔ Neither by giving heed to the works did they recognise the artificer; )

13:1 Or, are

KJB-1769 Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

KJB-1611 ¶ Surely vaine are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seene, know him that is: neither by considering the workes, did they acknowledge the worke-master;
(¶ Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen, know him that is: neither by considering the works, did they acknowledge the worke-master;)

Wycl Forsothe alle men ben veyn, in whiche the kunnyng of God is not; and of these thingis that ben seyn goode, thei myyten not vndurstonde him, that is, and thei perseyuynge the werkis knewen not, who was the worchere;
(For_certain/Truly all men been vain, in which the cunning of God is not; and of these things that been seen good, they might not understood him, that is, and they perseyuing the works knew not, who was the worchere;)

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