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Vulgate (Latin)   
xenia et dona excaecant oculos iudicum et quasi mutus in ore avertit correptiones eorum

King James Variants

Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
Better is the man who hides his folly than one who conceals his wisdom.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Better are those who hide their folly than those who hide their wisdom.
Good News Translation®   
But a person who covers up his foolishness is better than one who keeps his wisdom to himself.
Wycliffe Bible   
He is better, that hideth his unwisdom, than a man that hideth his wisdom. [Better is, that covereth his unwisdom, than a man that hideth his wisdom.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Better is the man who hides his folly than the man who hides his wisdom.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Better are those who hide their folly than those who hide their wisdom.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Better are those who hide their folly than those who hide their wisdom.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Better are those who hide their foolishness than those who hide their wisdom.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Better are those who hide their folly than those who hide their wisdom.
Revised Standard Version   
Better is the man who hides his folly than the man who hides his wisdom.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Better are those who hide their folly than those who hide their wisdom.