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LXX2012

Sirach 22:18

Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool can’t stand against any fear.

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any fear.
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
KJVView canonical →
Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any fear.
King James Version
WEBView canonical →
Fences set on a high place will not stand against the wind; so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool will not stand against any fear.
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
As reedes that are set vp on hie, can not abide the winde, so the fearcful heart with foolish imaginacion can indure no feare.
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha