Parallel Verses
- The Message - Better to be poor and honest than a rich person no one can trust.
- 新标点和合本 - 行为纯正的贫穷人 胜过乖谬愚妄的富足人。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 行为纯正的穷乏人 胜过嘴唇歪曲的愚昧人。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 行为纯正的穷乏人 胜过嘴唇歪曲的愚昧人。
- 当代译本 - 行为正直的穷人， 胜过言语诡诈的愚人。
- 圣经新译本 - 行为完全的穷人， 胜过说话欺诈的愚昧人。
- 中文标准译本 - 行事纯全的贫穷人， 好过言语悖谬的愚昧人。
- 现代标点和合本 - 行为纯正的贫穷人， 胜过乖谬愚妄的富足人。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 行为纯正的贫穷人， 胜过乖谬愚妄的富足人。
- New International Version - Better the poor whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.
- New International Reader's Version - It is better to be poor and to live without blame than to be foolish and to twist words around.
- English Standard Version - Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.
- New Living Translation - Better to be poor and honest than to be dishonest and a fool.
- Christian Standard Bible - Better a poor person who lives with integrity than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.
- New American Standard Bible - Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity Than a person who is perverse in speech and is a fool.
- New King James Version - Better is the poor who walks in his integrity Than one who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
- Amplified Bible - Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity Than a [rich] man who is twisted in his speech and is a [shortsighted] fool.
- American Standard Version - Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
- King James Version - Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
- New English Translation - Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.
- World English Bible - Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
- 新標點和合本 - 行為純正的貧窮人 勝過乖謬愚妄的富足人。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 行為純正的窮乏人 勝過嘴唇歪曲的愚昧人。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 行為純正的窮乏人 勝過嘴唇歪曲的愚昧人。
- 當代譯本 - 行為正直的窮人， 勝過言語詭詐的愚人。
- 聖經新譯本 - 行為完全的窮人， 勝過說話欺詐的愚昧人。
- 呂振中譯本 - 依純全之道而行的窮人、 勝過嘴脣乖僻、又是個愚頑人。
- 中文標準譯本 - 行事純全的貧窮人， 好過言語悖謬的愚昧人。
- 現代標點和合本 - 行為純正的貧窮人， 勝過乖謬愚妄的富足人。
- 文理和合譯本 - 貧而行正、愈於愚而乖謬、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 愚魯而妄言、不如貧乏而純良。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 貧者行動正直、勝於富者言乖且愚、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Más vale ser pobre e intachable que necio y embustero.
- 현대인의 성경 - 가난하지만 진실하게 사는 사람이 입술이 거짓되고 미련한 사람보다 낫다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Лучше бедняк, чей путь беспорочен, чем глупый с лукавой речью.
- Восточный перевод - Лучше бедняк, чей путь беспорочен, чем глупый с лукавой речью.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Лучше бедняк, чей путь беспорочен, чем глупый с лукавой речью.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Лучше бедняк, чей путь беспорочен, чем глупый с лукавой речью.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mieux vaut un pauvre qui se conduit de façon intègre qu’un homme aux paroles tordues, car celui-ci est un insensé.
- リビングバイブル - 人をだまして金持ちになるより、 貧しくても正直に生きるほうが幸せです。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Melhor é o pobre que vive com integridade do que o tolo que fala perversamente.
- Hoffnung für alle - Lieber arm und ehrlich als verlogen und dumm!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Thà nghèo mà sống đời thanh bạch, còn hơn giàu lại sống cách bất lương.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เป็นคนยากจนแต่ดำเนินชีวิตอย่างไร้ที่ติ ดีกว่าเป็นคนพูดตลบตะแลง เพราะคนเช่นนี้เป็นคนโง่
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - คนยากไร้ที่ดำเนินชีวิตด้วยสัจจะ ดีกว่าคนโง่ที่ชอบบิดเบือนคำพูด
Cross Reference
- Proverbs 14:2 - An honest life shows respect for God; a degenerate life is a slap in his face.
- Proverbs 12:26 - A good person survives misfortune, but a wicked life invites disaster.
- Proverbs 19:22 - It’s only human to want to make a buck, but it’s better to be poor than a liar.
- Proverbs 15:16 - A simple life in the Fear-of-God is better than a rich life with a ton of headaches.
- Matthew 12:31 - “There’s nothing done or said that can’t be forgiven. But if you deliberately persist in your slanders against God’s Spirit, you are repudiating the very One who forgives. If you reject the Son of Man out of some misunderstanding, the Holy Spirit can forgive you, but when you reject the Holy Spirit, you’re sawing off the branch on which you’re sitting, severing by your own perversity all connection with the One who forgives.
- Matthew 12:33 - “If you grow a healthy tree, you’ll pick healthy fruit. If you grow a diseased tree, you’ll pick worm-eaten fruit. The fruit tells you about the tree.
- Matthew 12:34 - “You have minds like a snake pit! How do you suppose what you say is worth anything when you are so foul-minded? It’s your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words. A good person produces good deeds and words season after season. An evil person is a blight on the orchard. Let me tell you something: Every one of these careless words is going to come back to haunt you. There will be a time of Reckoning. Words are powerful; take them seriously. Words can be your salvation. Words can also be your damnation.”
- Psalms 26:11 - You know I’ve been aboveboard with you; now be aboveboard with me. I’m on the level with you, God; I bless you every chance I get.
- 1 Samuel 25:25 - “I wasn’t there when the young men my master sent arrived. I didn’t see them. And now, my master, as God lives and as you live, God has kept you from this avenging murder—and may your enemies, all who seek my master’s harm, end up like Nabal! Now take this gift that I, your servant girl, have brought to my master, and give it to the young men who follow in the steps of my master.
- Proverbs 20:7 - God-loyal people, living honest lives, make it much easier for their children.
- James 2:5 - Listen, dear friends. Isn’t it clear by now that God operates quite differently? He chose the world’s down-and-out as the kingdom’s first citizens, with full rights and privileges. This kingdom is promised to anyone who loves God. And here you are abusing these same citizens! Isn’t it the high and mighty who exploit you, who use the courts to rob you blind? Aren’t they the ones who scorn the new name—“Christian”—used in your baptisms?
- Proverbs 16:8 - Far better to be right and poor than to be wrong and rich.
- Proverbs 28:6 - It’s better to be poor and direct than rich and crooked.