Parallel WIS 8:19

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

OET (OET-RV) Now I was a clever child, and received a good soul.

OET-LV child but/and to_be ⟦εὐφυὴς⟧, soul and/both ⟦ἔλαχον⟧ good-doer,

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

BrLXX Παῖς δὲ ἤμην εὐφυὴς, ψυχῆς τε ἔλαχον ἀγαθῆς,
(Pais de aʸmaʸn eufuaʸs, psuⱪaʸs te elaⱪon agathaʸs,)

BrTr For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit.

WEBBE Now I was a clever child, and received a good soul.

DRA And I was a witty child and had received a good soul.

RV Now I was [fn] a child of parts, and a good soul fell to my lot;

8:19 Or, a goodly child

KJB-1769 For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit.

KJB-1611 For I was a wittie child, and had a good spirit.
(For I was a skilful child, and had a good spirit.)

Wycl Forsothe Y was a witti child, and Y gat a good soule.
(For_certain/Truly I was a witty child, and I gat a good soul.)