Sorinka v chuzhom glazu vidneye

English translation: It is easier to spot a speck of sawdust in somebody else's eye

08:00 Sep 12, 2001

Russian to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Russian term or phrase: Sorinka v chuzhom glazu vidneye

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English translation:It is easier to spot a speck of sawdust in somebody else's eye

Explanation:
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" Matth. 7:3

Evangel'skaja konnotacija ochevidna, i potomu, mne kazhets'a, sleduet sohranit hot'a by "sorinku" tak, kak ona nazvana u Matfeja.

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It is easier to spot a speck of sawdust in somebody else's eye

Alex Pchelintsev

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to see a mote in thy brother's eye

NFalcon

speck

oldnick

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It is easier to spot a speck of sawdust in somebody else's eye

Alex Pchelintsev
Local time: 14:26
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2 hrs confidence:

speck

Explanation:
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Matthew 7:4-6

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oldnick
Local time: 14:26
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Russian
PRO pts in pair: 22

20 days confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

to see a mote in thy brother's eye

Explanation:
This is biblaic expression (Matthew VII, 3)
7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but
considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 7:4 Or how wilt
thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye;
and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first
cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

NFalcon
Local time: 17:26

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