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Vulgate (Latin)   
et est iustus qui se nimium submittit a multa humilitate et est iustus qui inclinat faciem et fingit non videre quod ignoratum est

King James Variants

Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
It is better to be short of sense and God-fearing than to be highly intelligent and violate the law.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Better are the God-fearing who lack understanding than the highly intelligent who transgress the law.
Good News Translation®   
A devout person, even if he is not very intelligent, is better off than the cleverest of sinners.
Wycliffe Bible   
Better is a man that hath little wisdom, and failing in wit, in the dread of God, than he that hath plenty of wit, and breaketh the law of the Highest. [Better is a man that is less(en)ed in wisdom, and failing wit in the dread of God, than that aboundeth in wit, and over-passeth the law of the Highest.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Better is the God-fearing man who lacks intelligence, than the highly prudent man who transgresses the law.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Better are the God-fearing who lack understanding than the highly intelligent who transgress the law.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Better are the God-fearing who lack understanding than the highly intelligent who transgress the law.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Someone who fears God but who has inferior intelligence is better than someone who abounds in intelligence but who violates the Law.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Better are the God-fearing who have little understanding than those of great intelligence who violate the Law.
Revised Standard Version   
Better is the God-fearing man who lacks intelligence, than the highly prudent man who transgresses the law.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Better are the God-fearing who lack understanding than the highly intelligent who transgress the law.