New Revised Standard Version
Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a foul odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Contemporary English Version
A few dead flies in perfume make all of it stink, and a little foolishness outweighs a lot of wisdom.

New American Bible
Dead flies corrupt and spoil the perfumer’s oil; more weighty than wisdom or wealth is a little folly!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.

Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.

Exodus 30:34,35 And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight. . . .

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2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord:

Nehemiah 6:13 For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing, and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.

Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.

Matthew 5:13-16 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. . . .

Galatians 2:12-14 For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision. . . .