Wisdom 4:1

ASV Byzantine Text

Better than this is childishness with virtue; For in the memory of virtue is immortality: Because it is recognized both before God and before men.

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019

Cakol khaw a khuel atah then ngai mai coeng, Aka khuel kah poeknah tah nguel. Te ni Pathen neh hlanghing long a ming puei.

Clementine Vulgate 1598

[O quam pulchra est casta generatio, cum claritate ! immortalis est enim memoria illius, quoniam et apud Deum nota est, et apud homines.

Brenton English Septuagint

Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.

Dutch Bible, Petrus Canisius

Beter kinderloosheid, verbonden met deugd; Want deze blijft onsterfelijk in de herinnering, Daar zij geacht wordt door God en de mensen.

Douay-Rheims 1899

O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.

King James Version + Apocrypha

Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.

KJV Cambridge Paragraph

Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.

LXX2012 U. S. English

Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.

British English Septuagint 2012

Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.

Revised Version

Better than this is childishness with virtue; For in the memory of virtue is immortality: Because it is recognised both before God and before men.

French Free Holy Bible for the World

Il est préférable d'être sans enfant avec la vertu, car l'immortalité est dans la mémoire de la vertu, car elle est reconnue à la fois devant Dieu et devant les hommes.

Spanish BLL

Es mejor no tener hijos pero ser gente de bien, porque hacer lo correcto te hace inolvidable, ya que tanto Dios como la gente te lo reconocen.

Spanish Free Bible for the World

Mejor es no tener hijos y tener virtud, porque la inmortalidad está en la memoria de la virtud, ya que es reconocida tanto ante Dios como ante los hombres.

Croatian Bible

Bolje i ne imati djece a posjedovati krepost, jer je spomen njezin besmrtan, i Bog i ljudi je cijene.

Updated Brenton English Septuagint

Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: For the memorial thereof is immortal: Because it is known with God, and with men.

World English Bible (Catholic)

It is better to be childless with virtue, for immortality is in the memory of virtue, because it is recognized both before God and before men.

World English Bible British Edition with Deuterocanon

It is better to be childless with virtue, for immortality is in the memory of virtue, because it is recognised both before God and before men.

World English Bible Classic

It is better to be childless with virtue, for immortality is in the memory of virtue, because it is recognized both before God and before men.

World English Bible Updated

It is better to be childless with virtue, for immortality is in the memory of virtue, because it is recognized both before God and before men.

SEPTUAGINTA

ΚΡΕΙΣΣΩΝ ἀτεκνία μετὰ ἀρετῆς· ἀθανασία γάρ ἐστιν ἐν μνήμῃ αὐτῆς, ὅτι καὶ παρὰ Θεῷ γινώσκεται καὶ παρὰ ἀνθρώποις·

Brenton Septuagint

Κρείσσων ἀτεκνία μετὰ ἀρετῆς, ἀθανασία γάρ ἐστιν ἐν μνήμῃ αὐτῆς, ὅτι καὶ παρὰ Θεῷ γινώσκεται καὶ παρὰ ἀνθρώποις·

Mashi Bible

Owabà arhagwêrhi mwâna nka agwêrhe enkômedu nyinjà, ye mukulu, bulyâla okurhafà kunanîre oku kukengêrwa enkômedu nyinjà. Nyamuzinda abà ayirhonyize, n’abantu kwo na kwo.

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