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Sirach 43:4
A person blows on a furnace, working in its burning heat, but the sun is three times hotter when it burns up mountains. When it breathes out fiery vapors, and shines forth its rays, it blinds eyes.
The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes.
The setting sun sets fire to the hilltops, like a metal furnace glowing from the heat. It sends out fiery rays, blinding the eyes with its brightness.
Like a blazing furnace of solid metal, the sun’s rays set the mountains aflame; Its fiery tongue consumes the world; the eyes are burned by its fire.
A man stokes a furnace in burning heat, but three times as hot is the sun that scorches the mountains. It breathes out fiery vapors, and the eyes are blinded by the intensity of its rays.
A man tending a furnace works in burning heat, but three times as hot is the sun scorching the mountains; it breathes out fiery vapours, and its bright rays blind the eyes.
A man tending a furnace works in burning heat, but three times as hot is the sun scorching the mountains; it breathes out fiery vapours, and its bright rays blind the eyes.
A man tending a furnace works in burning heat, but three times as hot is the sun scorching the mountains; it breathes out fiery vapors, and its bright rays blind the eyes.
A man tending a furnace works in burning heat, but three times as hot is the sun scorching the mountains; when it breathes out fiery vapors and when it shines forth its rays, it blinds the eyes.
A man tending a furnace works in burning heat, but the sun burns the mountains three times as much; it breathes out fiery vapors, and with bright beams it blinds the eyes.
A man tending a furnace works in burning heat, but the sun burns the mountains three times as much; it breathes out fiery vapors, and with bright beams it blinds the eyes.
Keeping a furnace in the works of heat; the sun burning hills in three manners, sending out beams of fire [or blasting out fiery beams], and shining again with his (or its) beams, blindeth (the) eyes.
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