Translations
but if you require me to lose my own proper good that you may gain what is not good, consider how inequitable and foolish you are.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
but if you require me to lose my own proper good, that you may gain what is no good, consider how unreasonable and foolish you are.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
But if you ask me to lose the things which are good and my own, in order that you may gain the things which are not good, see how unfair and silly you are.George Long (1890)
But if you call on me to lose the good things that are mine, in order that you may win things that are not good, look how unfair and thoughtless you are.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)