Proverbs 31:14
Modern Translations
New International Version
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.

New Living Translation
She is like a merchant’s ship, bringing her food from afar.

English Standard Version
She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar.

Berean Study Bible
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.

New American Standard Bible
She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar.

NASB 1995
She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar.

NASB 1977
She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar.

Amplified Bible
She is like the merchant ships [abounding with treasure]; She brings her [household’s] food from far away.

Christian Standard Bible
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from far away.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from far away.

Contemporary English Version
She is like a sailing ship that brings food from across the sea.

Good News Translation
She brings home food from out-of-the-way places, as merchant ships do.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
She is like merchant ships. She brings her food from far away.

International Standard Version
She is like a seagoing ship that brings her food from far away.

NET Bible
She is like the merchant ships; she brings her food from afar.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

New King James Version
She is like the merchant ships, She brings her food from afar.

King James 2000 Bible
She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.

New Heart English Bible
She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.

World English Bible
She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.

American King James Version
She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.

American Standard Version
She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.

A Faithful Version
She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.

Darby Bible Translation
She is like the merchants' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;

English Revised Version
She is like the merchant-ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

Webster's Bible Translation
She is like the merchant's ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
She is like the shippes of marchants: shee bringeth her foode from afarre.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
She is like a marchauntes ship, that bryngeth her vittayles from a farre.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
She is like a marchauntes shippe, that bryngeth hir vytayles from farre.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
She has been as ships of the merchant, "" She brings in her bread from afar.

Young's Literal Translation
She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread.

Smith's Literal Translation
She was as the ships of the merchant; from far off she will bring her bread.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
She is like the merchant's ship, she bringeth her bread from afar.

Catholic Public Domain Version
She has become like a merchant’s ship, bringing her bread from far away.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
She has been like a merchant's ship that brings its merchandise from far away.

Lamsa Bible
She is like the merchant's ship, she brings her merchandise from afar.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her food from afar.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
She is like a ship trading from a distance: so she procures her livelihood.
















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