Modern Translations New International VersionWhat advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others? New Living Translation So are wise people really better off than fools? Do poor people gain anything by being wise and knowing how to act in front of others? English Standard Version For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living? Berean Study Bible What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others? New American Standard Bible For what advantage does the wise person have over the fool? What does the poor person have, knowing how to walk before the living? NASB 1995 For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have, knowing how to walk before the living? NASB 1977 For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have, knowing how to walk before the living? Amplified Bible For what advantage has the wise man over the fool [for being worldly-wise is not the secret to happiness]? What advantage has the poor man who has learned how to walk [publicly] among the living [with men’s eyes on him; for being poor is not the secret to happiness either]? Christian Standard Bible What advantage then does the wise person have over the fool? What advantage is there for the poor person who knows how to conduct himself before others? Holman Christian Standard Bible What advantage then does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage is there for the poor person who knows how to conduct himself before others? Contemporary English Version We may be sensible, yet we are no better off than a fool. And if we are poor, it still doesn't do us any good to try to live right. Good News Translation How are the wise better off than fools? What good does it do the poor to know how to face life? GOD'S WORD® Translation What advantage does a wise person have over a fool? What advantage does a poor person have in knowing how to face life? International Standard Version For what advantage has the wise person over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have in knowing how to face life? NET Bible So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool? And what advantage does a pauper gain by knowing how to survive? Classic Translations King James BibleFor what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? New King James Version For what more has the wise man than the fool? What does the poor man have, Who knows how to walk before the living? King James 2000 Bible For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, who knows to walk before the living? New Heart English Bible For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living? World English Bible For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living? American King James Version For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows to walk before the living? American Standard Version For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living? A Faithful Version For what has the wise more than the fool? What gain has the poor who knows how to walk before the living? Darby Bible Translation For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? English Revised Version For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth to walk before the living? Webster's Bible Translation For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? Early Modern Geneva Bible of 1587For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing? Bishops' Bible of 1568 Coverdale Bible of 1535 For what hath the wyse more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore, that he knoweth to walke before the lyuynge? Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor what advantage [is] to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knows to walk before the living? Young's Literal Translation For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living? Smith's Literal Translation For what will remain to the wise one more than the foolish one? what to the poor that shall know to go before the living. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleWhat hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life? Catholic Public Domain Version What do the wise have which is more than the foolish? And what does the pauper have, except to continue on to that place, where there is life? Translations from Aramaic Peshitta Holy Bible TranslatedBecause there is more profit to the wise than to the fool. Why does the poor man know to go to The Life? Lamsa Bible The wise man has an advantage over the fool. What! Does the poor man know how to go through life? OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or the poor man that hath understanding, in walking before the living? Brenton Septuagint Translation For what advantage has the wise man over the fool, since even the poor knows how to walk in the direction of life?     |