Old Testament readings use the Septuagint , the Scripture the apostles quoted. Masoretic numbering shown for reference.Learn why
KJV

Sirach 40:22

Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both corn while it is green.

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both the first sprouting of corn.
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
LXX2012View canonical →
Your eye desires favor and beauty: but more than both corn while it is green.
Septuagint in American English (2012)
WEBView canonical →
Your eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than both.
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
Thine eye desireth fauor & beautie: but a grene sede time, rather then them bothe.
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha