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Comparing Text |
Translation |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more. |
American Standard |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others. |
Basic English |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better [02896] is a poor [04542] and a wise [02450] child [03206] than an old [02205] and foolish [03684] king [04428], who will [03045] no more be admonished [02094]. |
Strong Concordance |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Updated King James |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more. |
Young's Literal |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished. |
Darby |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better is a poor and a wise child, than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Webster |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more. |
World English |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter. |
Douay Rheims |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
melior est puer pauper et sapiens rege sene et stulto qui nescit providere in posterum |
Jerome's Vulgate |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more. |
Hebrew Names |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Mejor es el muchacho pobre y sabio, que el rey viejo y fatuo que no sabe ser aconsejado. |
Reina Valera - 1909 (Spanish) |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Mejor es el niño pobre y sabio, que el rey viejo y loco que no puede ser avisado. |
Sagradas Escrituras - 1569 (Spanish) |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction. |
New American Standard Bible© |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive counsel (friendly reproof and warning)-- |
Amplified Bible© |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Mieux vaut un enfant pauvre et sage qu`un roi vieux et insensé qui ne sait plus écouter les avis; |
Louis Segond - 1910 (French) |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
¶ Mieux vaut un jeune garçon pauvre et sage, qu'un roi vieux et sot qui ne sait plus être averti. |
John Darby (French) |
| Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
Melhor é o mancebo pobre e sábio do que o rei velho e insensato, que não se deixa mais admoestar, |
Unknown - Maybe Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) |