Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Whoever touches pitch will have blackened hands, and anyone who associates with a proud man will become like him.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Whoever touches pitch gets dirty, and whoever associates with a proud person becomes like him.
Good News Translation®
If you touch tar, it will stick to you, and if you keep company with arrogant people, you will come to be just like them.
Wycliffe Bible
He that toucheth pitch, shall be defouled of (or by) it; and he that communeth with a proud man, shall (be) clothe(d) (with) [or in] pride.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Whoever touches pitch will be defiled, and whoever associates with a proud man will become like him.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Whoever touches pitch gets dirty, and whoever associates with the proud will become like them.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Whoever touches pitch gets dirty, and whoever associates with a proud person becomes like him.
Common English Bible © 2011
Whoever touches tar will get dirty, and those who associate with the arrogant will become like them.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Touch pitch and you blacken your hand; associate with scoundrels and you learn their ways.
Revised Standard Version
Whoever touches pitch will be defiled, and whoever associates with a proud man will become like him.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Whoever touches pitch gets dirty, and whoever associates with a proud person becomes like him.