Sirach 40:22 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Your eye desires elegance and beauty, but verdant fields are above these things.

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Common English Bible

²² The eye will desire grace and beauty, but better than both are the first shoots of a crop.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green sown fields.

Good News Translation (US Version)

²² Gracefulness and beauty please the eye, but not as much as new growth in the spring.

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

²² Your eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than both.

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

²² Our eyes like beauty and graceful movement, but most of all, we want to see our fields becoming green with sprouting wheat.

Sirach 40:22 Tagairtí Cros