Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Wealth is good when it has been acquired honestly, but poverty is regarded as evil by the mouth of the godless.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Riches are good if they are free from sin; poverty is evil only in the opinion of the ungodly.
Good News Translation®
There is nothing wrong with being rich if you haven't sinned to get that way. But there is nothing sinful about being poor, either. Only the ungodly think so.
Wycliffe Bible
Chattel is good to him, to whom is no sin in conscience; and the worst poverty is in the mouth of a wicked man. [Good is substance, to whom is not sin in conscience; and most wicked is poorness in the mouth of the unpious.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Riches are good if they are free from sin, and poverty is evil in the opinion of the ungodly.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Riches are good if they are free from sin; poverty is evil only in the opinion of the ungodly.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Riches are good if they are free from sin; poverty is evil only in the opinion of the ungodly.
Common English Bible © 2011
Wealth is good as long as it’s free of sin; the ungodly speak of poverty as an evil in and of itself.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Wealth is good where there is no sin; but poverty is evil by the standards of the proud.
Revised Standard Version
Riches are good if they are free from sin, and poverty is evil in the opinion of the ungodly.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Riches are good if they are free from sin; poverty is evil only in the opinion of the ungodly.