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Source language

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
in aperiendo manus suas laetabitur sic praevaricatores in consummatione tabescent

King James Variants

Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
As the righteous man rejoices in opening his hands, so transgressors will come to ruin.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
As a generous person has cause to rejoice, so lawbreakers will utterly fail.
Good News Translation®   
tumbling rocks along as it flows, but then suddenly goes dry.
Wycliffe Bible   
An unjust man shall be glad in opening his hands; so trespassers shall fail in the end. [As the rightwise man in opening his hands shall glad; so the law-breakers in the end shall wane away.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
A generous man will be made glad; likewise transgressors will utterly fail.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
As a generous person has cause to rejoice, so lawbreakers will utterly fail.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
As a generous person has cause to rejoice, so lawbreakers will utterly fail.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Generous people will rejoice, but those who sin will ultimately fail.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Which, in its rising, rolls along the stones, but suddenly, once and for all, comes to an end.
Revised Standard Version   
A generous man will be made glad; likewise transgressors will utterly fail.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
As a generous person has cause to rejoice, so lawbreakers will utterly fail.