WIS 18:4 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 the Egyptians well deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness,
⇔ they who had imprisoned your children,
⇔ through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the race of men.

BrLXX Ἄξιοι μὲν γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι στερηθῆναι φωτὸς, καὶ φυλακισθῆναι ἐν σκότει, οἱ κατακλείστους φυλάξαντες τοὺς υἱούς σου, διʼ ὧν ἤμελλε τὸ ἄφθαρτον νόμου φῶς τῷ αἰῶνι δίδοσθαι.
(Axioi men gar ekeinoi steraʸthaʸnai fōtos, kai fulakisthaʸnai en skotei, hoi katakleistous fulaxantes tous huious sou, diʼ hōn aʸmelle to aftharton nomou fōs tōi aiōni didosthai. )

BrTr For they were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who had kept thy sons shut up, by whom the uncorrupt light of the law was to be given unto the world.

WEBBE For the Egyptians well deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness,
⇔ they who had imprisoned your children,
⇔ through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the race of men.

DRA The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world.

RV For well did [fn] the Egyptians deserve to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness,
⇔ They who had kept in close ward thy sons,
⇔ Through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to [fn] the race of men.
(For well did the Egyptians deserve to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness,
⇔ They who had kept in close ward thy/your sons,
⇔ Through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the race of men. )

18:4 Gr. they.

18:4 Or, future time Gr. the age.

KJB-1769 For they were worthy to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, who had kept thy sons shut up, by whom the uncorrupt light of the law was to be given unto the world.
(For they were worthy to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, who had kept thy/your sons shut up, by whom the uncorrupt light of the law was to be given unto the world. )

KJB-1611 [fn]For they were worthy to be depriued of light, and imprisoned in darknesse, who had kept thy sonnes shut vp, by whom the vncorrupt light of the law was to be giuen vnto the world.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

18:4 Or, incorruptible.

Wycl Forsothe thei weren worthi to wante liyt, and to suffre the prisoun of derknessis, whiche helden thi sones enclosid; bi whiche sones the vncorrupt lijt of lawe bigan to be youun to the world.
(For_certain/Truly they were worthy to want light, and to suffer the prison of darkness, which holding thy/your sons enclosid; by which sons the uncorrupt lijt of law began to be given to the world.)

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