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  Proverbs 12:9

  New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

• •  9 Better to be lightly esteemed and have a servant

    Than to glorify oneself and have no food.*+

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  Proverbs 12:9

  New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

• •  9 Better to be lightly esteemed and have a servant

    Than to glorify oneself and have no food.*+

• Proverbs 12:9

  New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References

• • 9 Better is the one lightly esteemed but having a servant than the one glorifying himself but in want of bread.+

• Proverbs 12:9

  The Bible in Living English

• • 9 A nobody who owns a slave

    is better than a pretentious man short of bread to eat.

• Proverbs 12:9

  American Standard Version

• • 9 Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, Than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread.

• Proverbs 12:9

  The Emphasized Bible

• • 9 Better slighted and have a servant, Than to honour oneself and come short of bread.

• Proverbs

  Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025

• • 12:9 w03 1/15 30

• Proverbs

  Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition

• • 12:9

    The Watchtower,

    1/15/2003, p. 30