Translation comparison

2 Esdras 4:44 in 1 translation

Every translation here words this verse identically, which is itself worth knowing — there is no interpretive fork to weigh.

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Early modern English

Seventeenth-century wording and sentence shape. Familiar, rhythmic, and the version most quotations you have heard are taken from.

King James Version

KJV

Then answered I and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,

1611 / 1769 · Public domain · The Authorised Version, revised to the 1769 Blayney text. Includes the Apocrypha as printed in 1611.

The verses either side

King James text. A comparison is easier to judge when you can see the sentence the verse sits inside.

43From the beginning, look, what thou desirest to see, it shall be shewed thee.

44Then answered I and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,

45Shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.

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