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Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
bona absconsa in ore cluso quasi adpositiones epularum circumpositae sepulchro

King James Variants

Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
Gourmet foods set before one who cannot eat are like delicacies placed on a grave.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
Good News Translation®   
The finest food means nothing if you are too sick to eat it; it might as well be offered to an idol.
Wycliffe Bible   
Goods hid in a closed mouth be as settings forth of meats set about a sepulchre. [Goods hid in a mouth closed, as layings-to of plenteous meats, set about to a sepulchre.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Good things that are poured out on a closed mouth are the same as food offerings placed on a grave.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Good things set before one who cannot eat are like food offerings placed before a tomb.
Revised Standard Version   
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.