Luke 16:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

New Living Translation
As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man’s table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores.

English Standard Version
who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Berean Study Bible
and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

New American Standard Bible
and longing to be fed from the scraps which fell from the rich man’s table; not only that, the dogs also were coming and licking his sores.

NASB 1995
and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

NASB 1977
and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

Amplified Bible
He [eagerly] longed to eat the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

Christian Standard Bible
He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man's table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores.

Contemporary English Version
He was happy just to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. His body was covered with sores, and dogs kept coming up to lick them.

Good News Translation
hoping to eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Lazarus would have eaten any scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Lazarus was covered with sores, and dogs would lick them.

International Standard Version
He was always trying to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs used to come and lick his sores.

NET Bible
who longed to eat what fell from the rich man's table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

New King James Version
desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

King James 2000 Bible
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

New Heart English Bible
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

World English Bible
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

American King James Version
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

American Standard Version
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs come and licked his sores.

A Faithful Version
And he longed to be nourished with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table; and the dogs even came and licked his sores.

Darby Bible Translation
and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.

English Revised Version
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Webster's Bible Translation
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And desired to bee refreshed with the crommes that fell from the riche mans table: yea, and the dogges came and licked his sores.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And desiring to be refresshed with the crumbes which fell from ye riche mans boorde And no man gaue vnto hym: but the dogges came and licked his sores.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and desyred to be fylled with the crommes, that fell from the riche mans table. Yet came the dogges, and licked his sores.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
desyringe to be refresshed with the cromes whiche fell from the ryche manes borde. Neverthelesse the dogges came and licked his soores.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; indeed, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

Berean Literal Bible
and desiring to be fed from that falling from the table of the rich man; but even the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

Young's Literal Translation
and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

Smith's Literal Translation
And eagerly desirous to be fed from crumbs falling from the rich one's table: but also the dogs, coming, licked off his wounds.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And passionately desiring to be feed from the fallings from the table of the rich man; but even the dogs coming licked his sores.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked his sores.

Catholic Public Domain Version
wanting to be filled with the crumbs which were falling from the wealthy man’s table. But no one gave it to him. And even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“And he longed to fill his belly with the fragments that fell from the rich man's table, but also the dogs would come licking his abscesses.”

Lamsa Bible
He longed to fill his stomach with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s tray; the dogs also came and licked his boils.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
and he would gladly have been fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Godbey New Testament
and desiring to be fed by the crumbs falling from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming continued to lick his sores.

Haweis New Testament
and importunately desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man?s table: yea even the dogs came and licked his ulcers.

Mace New Testament
but he wanted to be fed with the crumbs, that fell from the rich man's table.

Weymouth New Testament
covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man's table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.

Worrell New Testament
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs falling from the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

Worsley New Testament
who was laid at his gate full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table: and the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass that the poor man died,
















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