Translations
Louis Segond 1910
A vous maintenant, riches! Pleurez et gémissez, à cause des malheurs qui viendront sur vous.
KJV
Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].
Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].
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