Verse List for PROV 18:16

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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) A person’s donation can make space for them, ⇔ ≈ and it will give them access to important people.

OET-LV the_gift _of a _person it _makes _space to_him/it and_before _of great_people it_leads _him.

ULT The gift of a man will make room for him, ⇔ and before the face of great ones it will guide him.

UST Giving something to someone can benefit the one who gives it; ⇔  doing so can enable that person to meet important people.

BSB & MSB A man ’s gift opens doors for him, ⇔  and brings him before great men.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB A man’s gift makes room for him, ⇔  and brings him before great men.

NET A person’s gift makes room for him, ⇔ and leads him before important people.

LSV The gift of a man makes room for him,
And it leads him before the great.

FBV A gift opens doors for you, and gets you into the presence of important people.

T4T ⇔  If you take a gift to an important person, that will open the way to allow you to talk to him.

LEB • The gift of a person will open doors for him,
• and before the great, it gives him access.

BBE A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.

Moff A present paves the way for any suitor, ⇔  it wins him access to authorities.

JPS A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

ASV A man’s gift maketh room for him, ⇔ And bringeth him before great men.

DRA A man’s gift enlargeth his may, and maketh him room before princes.

YLT The gift of a man maketh room for him, And before the great it leadeth him.

Drby A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

RV A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
(A man’s gift maketh/makes room for him, and bringeth/brings him before great men.)

SLT The gift of a man will enlarge to him, and shall conduct him before the great.

Wbstr A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

KJB-1769 A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
(A man’s gift maketh/makes room for him, and bringeth/brings him before great men.)

KJB-1611 A mans gift maketh roome for him, & bringeth him before great men.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps A mans gyft maketh an open way, to bryng hym before great men.
(A mans gift maketh/makes an open way, to bring him before great men.)

Gnva A mans gift enlargeth him, and leadeth him before great men.
(A mans gift enlargeth him, and leadeth/leads him before great men.)

Cvdl Liberalite bryngeth a man to honor and worshipe, & setteth him amonge greate men.
(Liberalite bringeth/brings a man to honour and worship, and setteth him among great men.)

Wycl The yift of a man alargith his weie; and makith space to hym bifore princes.
(The yift of a man alargith his way; and maketh/makes space to him before princes.)

Luth Das Geschenk des Menschen macht ihm Raum und bringt ihn vor die großen Herren.
(The gift(n) the people power him space and brings him/it before/in_front_of the large gentlemen.)

ClVg [Donum hominis dilatat viam ejus, et ante principes spatium ei facit.
([Gift of_man dilatat way/road his/her, and before leaders space/interval to_him he/it_does.)

UHB מַתָּ֣ן אָ֭דָם יַרְחִ֣יב ל֑⁠וֹ וְ⁠לִ⁠פְנֵ֖י גְדֹלִ֣ים יַנְחֶֽ⁠נּוּ׃ ‡

BrLXX Δόμα ἀνθρώπου ἐμπλατύνει αὐτὸν, καὶ παρὰ δυνάσταις καθιζάνει αὐτόν.

BrTr A man's gift [fn]enlarges him, and seats him among princes.