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Sirach 30:18-20
Wycliffe Bible
Sirach 30:18-20
Wycliffe Bible
18 Goods hid in a closed mouth be as settings forth of meats set about a sepulchre. [Goods hid in a mouth closed, as layings-to of plenteous meats, set about to a sepulchre.]
19 What shall sacrifice profit to an idol? [or What shall profit sacrifice to the maumet?] for why it shall not eat, neither shall smell. So he that is driven away from the Lord,
20 and beareth the meeds (or the rewards) of wickedness, [or of shrewdness, (or of depravity)], seeing with eyes, and wailing inwardly, as a gelding embracing a virgin [or a maiden], and sighing.
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2001 by Terence P. Noble