◄ Proverbs 12:9 {10} ►
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Good News Translation
It is better to be an ordinary person working for a living than to play the part of someone great but go hungry.

New Revised Standard Version
Better to be despised and have a servant, than to be self-important and lack food.

Contemporary English Version
It's better to be ordinary and have only one servant than to think you are somebody and starve to death.

New American Bible
Better to be slighted and have a servant than put on airs and lack bread.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.

despised

Proverbs 13:7 One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

Luke 14:11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Context
Loving Discipline and Knowledge
…8Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread. 9The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.10He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish.…
Cross References
Matthew 15:8
This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.

Proverbs 12:8
Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread.

Proverbs 12:10
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish.

Proverbs 12:8
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