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LXX

Wisdom of Solomon 16:4

For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it should only be shewed how their enemies were tormented.

Parallel Translations

LXX2012View canonical →
For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented.
Septuagint in American English (2012)
KJVView canonical →
For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it should only be shewed how their enemies were tormented.
King James Version
WEBView canonical →
For it was necessary that inescapable lack should come upon those oppressors, but that to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented.
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
For it was requisite, that they which vsed tyrannie, shulde fall into extreme pouertie, and that to these onelie it shulde be shewed, how their enemies were tormented.
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha