Parallel PRO 12:9

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BSB  ⇔ Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant,
⇔ than to be self-important but lack food.

OEB Better a man of no rank, with a servant,
⇔ than one who apes greatness and yet has no bread.

WEB Better is he who is little known, and has a servant,
⇔ than he who honors himself and lacks bread.

NET Better is a person of humble standing who nevertheless has a servant,
 ⇔ than one who pretends to be somebody important yet has no food.

LSV Better [is] the lightly esteemed who has a servant,
Than the self-honored who lacks bread.

FBV Better to be a humble man serving himself than a boastful man who has nothing to eat.

T4T  ⇔ It is better to be a humble/ordinary person who has only one servant
⇔ than to think that you are very important while you have nothing to eat.

LEB  • [fn] than self-glorifying and lacking food.

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BBE He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.

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JPS Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, than he that playeth the man of rank, and lacketh bread.

ASV Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant,
 ⇔ Than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread.

DRA Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread.

YLT Better [is] the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread.

DBY Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

RV Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

WBS He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoreth himself, and is destitute of bread.

KJB He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
  (He that is despised, and hath/has a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread. )

BB He that is dispised and is yet his owne man, is better then the glorious that lacketh bread.
  (He that is dispised and is yet his own man, is better then the glorious that lacketh bread.)

GNV He that is despised, and is his owne seruant, is better then he that boasteth himselfe and lacketh bread.
  (He that is despised, and is his own servant, is better then he that boasteth himself and lacketh bread. )

CB A simple man which laboureth and worketh, is better the one that is gorgious and wanteth bred.

WYC Betere is a pore man, and sufficient to him silf, than a gloriouse man, and nedi of breed.
  (Betere is a poor man, and sufficient to him silf, than a gloriouse man, and nedi of breed.)

LUT Wer gering ist und wartet des Seinen, der ist besser, denn der groß sein will, dem des Brots mangelt.
  (Who gering is and wartet the Seinen, the is besser, because the large his will, to_him the Brots mangelt.)

CLV Melior est pauper et sufficiens sibi quam gloriosus et indigens pane.
  (Melior it_is pauper and sufficiens sibi how gloriosus and indigens pane. )

BRN Better is a man in dishonour serving himself, than one honouring himself and wanting bread.

BrLXX Κρείσσων ἀνὴρ ἐν ἀτιμίᾳ δουλεύων ἑαυτῷ, ἢ τιμὴν ἑαυτῷ περιτιθεὶς καὶ προσδεόμενος ἄρτου.
  (Kreissōn anaʸr en atimia douleuōn heautōi, aʸ timaʸn heautōi perititheis kai prosdeomenos artou. )