Translation comparison

2 Esdras 7:46 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

I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.

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

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

45Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed, nor to oppress him that hath gotten the victory.

46I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.

47For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?

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