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Holman Christian Standard Bible
5 The fool folds his arms and consumes his own flesh.
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English Standard Version
5 The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.
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King James Version
5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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The Message Bible
5 The fool sits back and takes it easy, His sloth is slow suicide.
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New American Standard Bible
5 The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
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New International Version
5 Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.
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New King James Version
5 The fool folds his hands And consumes his own flesh.
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New Living Translation
5 “Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin.”
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New Revised Standard
5 Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.
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American Standard Version
5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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The Bible in Basic English
5 The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.
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Common English Bible
5 Fools fold their hands and eat their own flesh.
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Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
5 Fools fold their hands and eat their own flesh.
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The Complete Jewish Bible
5 Fools fold their arms together and eat their own flesh away.
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The Darby Translation
5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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Good News Translation
5 They say that we would be fools to fold our hands and let ourselves starve to death.
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5 They say that we would be fools to fold our hands and let ourselves starve to death.
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GOD'S WORD Translation
5 A fool folds his hands and wastes away.
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Hebrew Names Version
5 The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
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Jubilee Bible 2000
5 The fool folds his hands together and eats his own flesh.
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King James Version w/ Apocrypha
5 The fool foldeth his hands together , and eateth his own flesh.
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Lexham English Bible
5 {The fool refuses to work with his hands, so he has nothing to eat except his own skin}!
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Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha
5 The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.
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New Century Version
5 Some say it is foolish to fold your hands and do nothing, because you will starve to death.
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New International Reader's Version
5 A foolish person folds his hands and doesn't work. And that destroys him.
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New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha
5 Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.
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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh, saying:
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Revised Standard Version
5 The fool folds his hands, and eats his own flesh.
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5 The fool folds his hands, and eats his own flesh.
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Third Millennium Bible
5 The fool foldeth his hands together and eateth his own flesh.
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5 The fool foldeth his hands together and eateth his own flesh.
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The Latin Vulgate
5 stultus conplicat manus suas et comedit carnes suas dicens
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5 stultus conplicat manus suas et comedit carnes suas dicens
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The Webster Bible
5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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World English Bible
5 The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
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Wycliffe
5 A fool foldeth together his hands, and eateth his flesh (and eateth his meat),
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Young's Literal Translation
5 The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:
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