Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Gourmet foods set before one who cannot eat are like delicacies placed on a grave.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
Good News Translation®
The finest food means nothing if you are too sick to eat it; it might as well be offered to an idol.
Wycliffe Bible
Goods hid in a closed mouth be as settings forth of meats set about a sepulchre. [Goods hid in a mouth closed, as layings-to of plenteous meats, set about to a sepulchre.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
Common English Bible © 2011
Good things that are poured out on a closed mouth are the same as food offerings placed on a grave.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Good things set before one who cannot eat are like food offerings placed before a tomb.
Revised Standard Version
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.