Proverbs 14:28

In 11 translations

BSB

A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

KJV

In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

WEB

In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

ASV

In the multitude of people is the king’s glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

LSV

The honor of a king [is] in the multitude of a people, || And the ruin of a prince in lack of people.

YLT

In the multitude of a people [is] the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.

DBY

In the multitude of people is the king's glory; but in the lack of people is the ruin of a prince.

DRC

In the multitude of people is the dignity of the king: and in the small number of people the dishonour of the prince.

GNV

In the multitude of the people is the honour of a King, and for the want of people commeth the destruction of the Prince.

JPS

In the multitude of people is the king's glory; but in the want of people is the ruin of the prince.

LXXE

In a populous nation is the glory of a king: but in the failure of people is the ruin of a prince.

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Original-language editions

WLC

בְּרָב־עָ֥ם הַדְרַת־מֶ֑לֶךְ וּבְאֶ֥פֶס לְ֝אֹ֗ם מְחִתַּ֥ת רָזֽוֹן׃

LXX-Br

Ἐν πολλῷ ἔθνει δόξα βασιλέως, ἐν δὲ ἐκλείψει λαοῦ συντριβὴ δυνάστου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Kings 4:20–21The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing. And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines,…
• Exodus 1:22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
• 2 Kings 13:7Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
• Exodus 1:12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
• 1 Kings 20:27The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.
• 2 Kings 10:32–33In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory from the Jordan eastward through all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh),…

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