Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
In the multitude of people is the king's honor, but in the lack of people is the ruin of the prince.
New American Standard Bible
But in the dearth of people is a prince’s ruin.
King James Version
In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Holman Bible
but a shortage of people is a ruler’s devastation.
International Standard Version
A large population is a king's glory, but a shortage of people is a ruler's ruin.
A Conservative Version
In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
American Standard Version
In the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Amplified
In a multitude of people is a king’s glory,
But in a lack of people is a [pretentious] prince’s ruin.
Bible in Basic English
A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.
Darby Translation
In the multitude of people is the king's glory; but in the lack of people is the ruin of a prince.
Julia Smith Translation
In a multitude of people the king's decoration: and in the cessation of the people the destruction of the prince.
King James 2000
In the multitude of people is the king's honor: but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In the multitude of people is the glory of the king, but without a population, a prince [is] ruined.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The increase and prosperity of the commons is the king's honour; but the decay of the people is the confusion of the prince.
NET Bible
A king's glory is the abundance of people, but the lack of subjects is the ruin of a ruler.
New Heart English Bible
In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
The Emphasized Bible
In the multitude of a people, is the majesty of the king, but, in the ceasing of population, is the ruin of the prince.
Webster
In the multitude of people is the king's honor: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
World English Bible
In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
Youngs Literal Translation
In the multitude of a people is the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 14:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
27 The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life to turn aside from the snares of death. 28 In the multitude of people is the king's honor, but in the lack of people is the ruin of the prince. 29 He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Cross References
Exodus 1:12
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the sons of Israel.
Exodus 1:22
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.
1 Kings 4:20-21
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand by the sea in multitude; eating and drinking and making merry.
1 Kings 20:27
And the sons of Israel were numbered, and were fed, and went to meet them. And the sons of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of goats. And the Syrians filled the country.
2 Kings 10:32-33
In those days Jehovah began to cut Israel short. And Hazael struck them in all the border of Israel,
2 Kings 13:7
For He had not left a people remaining to Jehoahaz, but only fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and had made them like the dust at threshing-time.