Other translations
New Catholic Bible
You are better off to be poor and healthy and fit than to be rich and tormented in one’s body.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Better off poor, healthy, and fit than rich and afflicted in body.
Good News Translation®
It is better to be poor, but strong and healthy, than to be rich, but in poor health.
Wycliffe Bible
Better is a poor man whole, and strong in mights [or in strengths], than a rich man feeble, and beaten [or scourged] with malice.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Better off is a poor man who is well and strong in constitution than a rich man who is severely afflicted in body.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Better off poor, healthy, and fit than rich and afflicted in body.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Better off poor, healthy, and fit than rich and afflicted in body.
Common English Bible © 2011
It is better to be poor, but healthy and strong, than a rich person whose body is afflicted.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Better the poor in vigorous health than the rich with bodily ills.
Revised Standard Version
Better off is a poor man who is well and strong in constitution than a rich man who is severely afflicted in body.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Better off poor, healthy, and fit than rich and afflicted in body.