Verse List for PROV 28:21

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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) It’s not good to show partiality, ⇔ yet a person will break the rules for a piece of bread.

OET-LV To _pay _regard _to faces not is_good and_on a _piece _of bread he _will _transgress a _man.

ULT Recognizing faces, is not good, ⇔ yet for a bit of bread a man will transgress.

UST Although it is very evil to unfairly favor one person over another, ⇔  some people will sin by doing so to get even a small bribe.

BSB & MSB To show partiality [is] not good, ⇔  yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB To show partiality is not good, ⇔  yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

NET To show partiality is terrible, ⇔ for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.

LSV [It] is not good to discern faces,
And a man transgresses for a piece of bread.

FBV Showing favoritism isn't good, but some people will do wrong just for a piece of bread.

T4T ⇔  It is not good for judges to decide matters unfairly/unjustly, ⇔  but some people will do what is wrong even if they receive only a very small bribe [HYP] for doing it.

LEB • Showing partiality[fn] is not good,
• and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong.

BBE It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.

Moff To favour one side is not fair- ⇔  to sin, bribed by a bit of bread!

JPS To have respect of persons is not good; for a man will transgress for a piece of bread.

ASV To have respect of persons is not good; ⇔ Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

DRA He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.

YLT To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.

Drby To have respect of persons is not good; but for a piece of bread will a man transgress.

RV To have respect of persons is not good: neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.
(To have respect of persons is not good: neither that a man should transgress for apiece of bread.)

SLT To look upon faces is not good and for a morsel of bread the man will transgress.

Wbstr To have respect of persons is not good: for, for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

KJB-1769 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
(To have respect of persons is not good: for for apiece of bread that man will transgress.)

KJB-1611 To haue respect of persons, is not good: for, for a piece of bread that man will transgresse.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps To haue respect of persons in iudgement is not good, for that man wyll do wrong, yea euen for a peece of bread.
(To have respect of persons in judgement is not good, for that man will do wrong, yea even for a piece of bread.)

Gnva To haue respect of persons is not good: for that man will transgresse for a piece of bread.
(To have respect of persons is not good: for that man will transgress for apiece of bread.)

Cvdl To haue respecte of personnes in iudgment is not good: And why? he will do wronge, yee euen for a pece of bred.
(To have respect of persons in judgement is not good: And why? he will do wrong, ye/you_all even for a piece of bread.)

Wycl He that knowith a face in doom, doith not wel; this man forsakith treuthe, yhe, for a mussel of breed.
(He that knoweth/knows a face in judgement, doeth/does not well; this man forsaketh/forsakes truth, yea/yes, for a mussel of bread.)

Luth Person ansehen ist nicht gut; denn er täte übel auch wohl um ein Stück Brots.
(Person seen is not good; because/than he would bad/evil also probably/well around/by/for a piece bread.)

ClVg Qui cognoscit in judicio faciem non bene facit; iste et pro buccella panis deserit veritatem.
(Who knows in/into/on judgement face not/no well he/it_does; this and for buccella bread/food abandons the_truth.)

UHB הַֽכֵּר־פָּנִ֥ים לֹא־ט֑וֹב וְ⁠עַל־פַּת־לֶ֝֗חֶם יִפְשַׁע־גָּֽבֶר׃ ‡

BrLXX Ὃς οὐκ αἰσχύνεται πρόσωπα δικαίων, οὐκ ἀγαθὸς, ὁ τοιοῦτος ψωμοῦ ἄρτου ἀποδώσεται ἄνδρα.

BrTr He that reverences not the persons of the just is not good: such a one will sell a man for a morsel of bread.