Verse List for PROV 16:19

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) It’s better to live humbly among poor people, ⇔ ^ than to be dividing up the plunder with the proud.

OET-LV is_good to _be _lowly spirit with humble_people[fn] more_than _to _divide plunder with proud_people.

ULT Better to be lowly of spirit, with afflicted ones ⇔ than to share a portion, of spoil, with proud ones.

UST It is better to live humbly among poor people ⇔  than to live proudly and receive some of what proud people have taken from others.

BSB & MSB It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble ⇔  than to divide the spoil with the proud.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, ⇔  than to divide the plunder with the proud.

NET It is better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted ⇔ than to share the spoils with the proud.

LSV Better is humility of spirit with the poor,
Than to apportion spoil with the proud.

FBV Better to have a humble spirit and live with the poor than to share plunder with the proud.

T4T ⇔  It is better to be humble and poor ⇔  than to associate with proud people and to become rich by dividing with them ◄plunder/goods captured in a battle►.

LEB • Better a lowly spirit with the poor
• than dividing the spoil with the proud.

BBE Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.

Moff Better be modest among poor folk ⇔  than divide plunder with the proud.

JPS Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the humble, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

ASV Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, ⇔ Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

DRA It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.

YLT Better is humility of spirit with the poor, Than to apportion spoil with the proud.

Drby Better is it to be of a humble spirit with the meek, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

RV Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

SLT Good the cast down of spirit with the humble more than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Wbstr Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

KJB-1769 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

KJB-1611 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, then to diuide the spoile with the proud.
(Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, then to divide the spoil with the proud.)

Bshps Better it is to be of humble mynde with the lowly, the to deuide the spoyles with the proude.
(Better it is to be of humble mind with the lowly, the to divide the spoils with the proud.)

Gnva Better it is to be of humble minde with the lowly, then to deuide the spoyles with the proude.
(Better it is to be of humble mind with the lowly, then to divide the spoils with the proud.)

Cvdl Better it is to be of humble mynde wt the lowly, then to deuyde ye spoyles wt ye proude.
(Better it is to be of humble mind with the lowly, then to divide ye/you_all spoils with ye/you_all proud.)

Wycl It is betere to be maad meke with mylde men, than to departe spuylis with proude men.
(It is better to be made meek with mild men, than to depart spoils with proud men.)

Luth Es ist besser niedriges Gemüts sein mit den Elenden, denn Raub austeilen mit den Hoffärtigen.
(It is better low/humblees mind(n) be with the wretched/poor_(one), because/than plunder distribute with the haughty/arrogant_(ones).)

ClVg Melius est humiliari cum mitibus quam dividere spolia cum superbis.
(Better it_is humiliari when/with mitibus how to_divide spoils when/with proud.)

UHB ט֣וֹב שְׁפַל־ר֭וּחַ אֶת־עֲנָוִ֑ים [fn] מֵֽ⁠חַלֵּ֥ק שָׁ֝לָ֗ל אֶת־גֵּאִֽים׃ ‡

BrLXX Κρείσσων πρᾳΰθυμος μετὰ ταπεινώσεως, ἢ ὃς διαιρεῖται σκῦλα μετὰ ὑβριστῶν.

BrTr Better is a meek-spirited man with [fn]lowliness, than one who divides spoils with the proud.