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Sirach 20:17

How often, and of how many, will he be laughed to scorn!

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
How oft, and of how many shall he be laughed to scorn!
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
LXX2012View canonical →
How often, and of how many shall he be laughed to scorn! for he knows not aright what it is to have; and it is all one to him as if he had it not.
Septuagint in American English (2012)
KJVView canonical →
How oft, and of how many shall he be laughed to scorn! for he knoweth not aright what it is to have; and it is all one unto him as if he had it not.
King James Version