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Proverbs 17:7

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 7 Upright* speech does not befit a fool.+
  
  How much less does false speech befit a ruler!*+

Proverbs 17:7

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 7 Upright* speech does not befit a fool.+
  
  How much less does false speech befit a ruler!*+

Proverbs 17:7

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 7 For anyone senseless the lip of uprightness is not fitting.+ How much less so for a noble the lip of falsehood!+

Proverbs 17:7

The Bible in Living English
- 7 * A grandiloquent lip is not becoming to a rascal;
  much less a falsifying lip to a noble.

Proverbs 17:7

American Standard Version
- 7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool; Much less do lying lips a prince.

Proverbs 17:7

The Emphasized Bible
- 7 Unseemly in an unworthy man is the lip of excellence, Much more in one of noble mind the lip of falsehood.