Verse List for PROV 17:7

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Excellent lips wouldn’t be suitable for a fool, ⇔ ≈ and certainly deceptive lips don’t suit a ruler.

OET-LV Not is_suitable for_a _fool a _lip _of excellence indeed if/because for_a _noble_person a _lip _of deception.

ULT A lip of excess, is not suitable for a worthless, one; ⇔ how much less a lip of falsehood for a noble.

UST It is not fitting for worthless people to speak eloquently. ⇔  It is even less fitting for royal officials to speak falsely!

BSB & MSB Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; ⇔  how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, ⇔  much less do lying lips fit a prince.

NET Excessive speech is not becoming for a fool; ⇔ how much less are lies for a ruler!

LSV A lip of excellence is not fitting for a fool, much less a lip of falsehood for a noble.

FBV Fine words don't suit stupid people, how much less are lies suited to a ruler.

T4T ⇔  Fine/Eloquent speech is not suitable for foolish people to say, ⇔  just like lies are not suitable for rulers to say.

LEB • Fine speech[fn] is not becoming a fool,
• still less[fn] is false speech[fn] for a ruler.

BBE Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.

Moff Talk about virtue is not for a churl; ⇔  much less are lies for a noble soul!

JPS Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince.

ASV Excellent speech becometh not a fool; ⇔ Much less do lying lips a prince.

DRA Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.

YLT Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

Drby Excellent speech becometh not a vile [man]; how much less do lying lips a noble!

RV Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
(Excellent speech becometh/becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.)

SLT The lip of excellence is not becoming to, the foolish one: much less the lip of falsehood to the noble one.

Wbstr Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

KJB-1769 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.[fn][fn]
(Excellent speech becometh/becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.)

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]Excellent speech becommeth not a foole: much lesse doe lying lippes a prince.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

Bshps Speache of aucthoritie becommeth not a foole, much lesse a lying mouth then beseemeth a prince.
(Speache of authority becometh/becomes not a fool, much less a lying mouth then beseemeth a prince.)

Gnva Hie talke becommeth not a foole, much lesse a lying talke a prince.
(Hie talk becometh/becomes not a fool, much less a lying talk a prince.)

Cvdl An eloquent speach becometh not a foole, a dyssemblinge mouth also besemeth not a prynce.
(An eloquent speech becometh/becomes not a fool, a dyssemblinge mouth also besemeth not a prince.)

Wycl Wordis wel set togidere bisemen not a fool; and a liynge lippe bicometh not a prince.
(Wordis well set together bisemen not a fool; and a lying lip becometh/becomes not a prince.)

Luth Es stehet einem Narren nicht wohl an, von hohen Dingen reden, viel weniger einem Fürsten, daß er gerne lüget.
(It stands on fool(n) not probably/well to/along, from high/tall things talk(v), many fewer/minus on prince(s)/ruler(s), that he gladly/willingly lies(v).)

ClVg Non decent stultum verba composita, nec principem labium mentiens.
(Not/No decent stupidity words composita, but_not prince lip mentiens.)

UHB לֹא־נָאוָ֣ה לְ⁠נָבָ֣ל שְׂפַת־יֶ֑תֶר אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי־לְ⁠נָדִ֥יב שְׂפַת־שָֽׁקֶר׃ ‡

BrLXX Οὐχ ἁρμόσει ἄφρονι χείλη πιστὰ, οὐδὲ δικαίῳ χείλη ψευδῆ.

BrTr Faithful lips will not suit a fool; nor lying lips a just man.