Blind [are] his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them [are] dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.

'Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary -- is debtor!

Fools and blind! for which [is] greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?

Fools and blind! for which [is] greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

'As to an ox or a sheep enlarged or dwarfed -- a willing-offering ye do make it, but for a vow it is not pleasing.