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Vulgate (Latin)   
mores hominum mendacium sine honore et confusio illius cum ipso sine intermissione

King James Variants

Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
He who tills his soil has an abundant harvest; he who pleases the great will secure pardon for offenses.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Those who cultivate the soil heap up their harvest, and those who please the great atone for injustice.
Good News Translation®   
They will excuse your errors if they like you, so cultivate the soil and reap the harvest!
Wycliffe Bible   
He that worketh his land, shall make high the heap of fruits; and he that worketh rightfulness, shall be enhanced (or exalted) [or and who worketh rightwiseness, he shall much be enhanced]. Soothly he that pleaseth great men, shall escape wickedness.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Whoever cultivates the soil will heap up his harvest, and whoever pleases great men will atone for injustice.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Those who cultivate the soil heap up their harvest, and those who please the great atone for injustice.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Those who cultivate the soil heap up their harvest, and those who please the great atone for injustice.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Those who work the soil will pile up their harvest, and those who please the powerful will secure reconciliation for injuries.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Those who work the land have abundant crops, and those who please the great are pardoned their faults.
Revised Standard Version   
Whoever cultivates the soil will heap up his harvest, and whoever pleases great men will atone for injustice.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Those who cultivate the soil heap up their harvest, and those who please the great atone for injustice.