Proverbs 12:9 - English Standard Version 2016

⁹ Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better Than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Better is he who is lightly esteemed but works for his own support than he who assumes honor for himself and lacks bread.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, Than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread.

Common English Bible

⁹ Better to be held in low regard and have a servant than to be conceited and lack food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Better is a pauper who has what he needs, than someone glorious and in need of bread.

Proverbs 12:9 Mga Krus na Reperensya

Proverbs 12:10

Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Proverbs 12:8

A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.

Proverbs 13:7

One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Matthew 15:8

“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”