Verse List for PROV 14:24

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OET (OET-RV) The crown of wise people is their wealth. ⇔ ^ The foolishness of fools is really foolish.

OET-LV the_crown _of wise_people wealth _of_is_their the_folly _of fools is_folly.

ULT The crown of the wise ones, is their riches; ⇔ the folly of stupid ones, is folly.

UST A reward of being wise is to become rich, ⇔  but because stupid people are foolish, they only become more foolish.

BSB & MSB The crown of the wise is their wealth, ⇔  [but] the effort of fools [is] folly.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB The crown of the wise is their riches, ⇔  but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

NET The crown of the wise is their riches, ⇔ but the folly of fools is folly.

LSV The crown of the wise is their wealth,
The folly of fools [is] folly.

FBV The wise are rewarded with wealth, but stupid people are rewarded with stupidity.

T4T ⇔  One of the rewards [MET] of being wise is to become rich; ⇔  the reward of acting foolishly is to become more foolish.

LEB • The crown of the wise is their wealth;
• the folly of fools is folly.

BBE Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.

Moff The crown of wise men is their wisdom: ⇔  the coronet of fools is their own folly.

JPS The crown of the wise is their riches; but the folly of fools remaineth folly.

ASV The crown of the wise is their riches; ⇔ But the folly of fools is only folly.

DRA The crown of the wise is their riches: the folly of fools, imprudence.

YLT The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools [is] folly.

Drby The crown of the wise is their riches; the folly of the foolish is folly.

RV The crown of the wise is their riches: but the folly of fools is only folly.

SLT The crown of the wise is their riches: the folly of the foolish, folly.

Wbstr The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

KJB-1769 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

KJB-1611 The crowne of the wise is their riches: but the foolishnesse of fooles is folly.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Riches are as a crowne vnto the wise: but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse.
(Riches are as a crown unto the wise: but the ignorance of fools is very foolishness.)

Gnva The crowne of the wise is their riches, and the follie of fooles is foolishnes.
(The crown of the wise is their riches, and the follie of fools is foolishness.)

Cvdl Riches are an ornament vnto the wyse, but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse.
(Riches are an ornament unto the wise, but the ignorance of fools is very foolishness.)

Wycl The coroun of wise men is the richessis of hem; the fooli of foolis is vnwarnesse.
(The crown of wise men is the riches of hem; the fooli of fools is unwarness.)

Luth Den Weisen ist ihr Reichtum eine Krone; aber die Torheit der Narren bleibt Torheit.
(The wise_(men) is you(pl)/their/her wealth/abundance a/one crown(n); but the folly the/of_the fool(n) remains/stays folly.)

ClVg Corona sapientium divitiæ eorum; fatuitas stultorum imprudentia.[fn]
(Corona wise wealth their; stupidtas of_fools imprudence.)

UHB עֲטֶ֣רֶת חֲכָמִ֣ים עָשְׁרָ֑⁠ם אִוֶּ֖לֶת כְּסִילִ֣ים אִוֶּֽלֶת׃ ‡

BrLXX Στέφανος σοφῶν πανοῦργος, ἡ δὲ διατριβὴ ἀφρόνων κακή.

BrTr A prudent man is the crown of the wise: but the occupation of fools is evil.