Other translations
New Catholic Bible
If you have gathered nothing in your youth, how can you discover anything in your old age?
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
If you gathered nothing in your youth, how can you find anything in your old age?
Good News Translation®
Unless you learn what you can while you are young, you will never be wise when you reach old age.
Wycliffe Bible
How shalt thou find in thine eld (age) those things, which thou gathered not in thy youth? [What things in thy youth thou hast not gathered, how shalt thou find (them) in thine eld (age).]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
You have gathered nothing in your youth; how then can you find anything in your old age?
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
If you gathered nothing in your youth, how can you find anything in your old age?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
If you gathered nothing in your youth, how can you find anything in your old age?
Common English Bible © 2011
If you have gathered nothing in your youth, how then will you find anything in your old age?
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
In your youth you did not gather. How will you find anything in your old age?
Revised Standard Version
You have gathered nothing in your youth; how then can you find anything in your old age?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
If you gathered nothing in your youth, how can you find anything in your old age?