Proverbs 20:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.

New Living Translation
The godly walk with integrity; blessed are their children who follow them.

English Standard Version
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!

Berean Study Bible
The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.

New American Standard Bible
A righteous person who walks in his integrity— How blessed are his sons after him.

NASB 1995
A righteous man who walks in his integrity-- How blessed are his sons after him.

NASB 1977
A righteous man who walks in his integrity— How blessed are his sons after him.

Amplified Bible
The righteous man who walks in integrity and lives life in accord with his [godly] beliefs— How blessed [happy and spiritually secure] are his children after him [who have his example to follow].

Christian Standard Bible
A righteous person acts with integrity; his children who come after him will be happy.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The one who lives with integrity is righteous; his children who come after him will be happy.

Contemporary English Version
Good people live right, and God blesses the children who follow their example.

Good News Translation
Children are fortunate if they have a father who is honest and does what is right.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A righteous person lives on the basis of his integrity. Blessed are his children after he is gone.

International Standard Version
The righteous person lives a life of integrity; happy are his children who follow him!

NET Bible
The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

New King James Version
The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

King James 2000 Bible
The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

New Heart English Bible
A righteous man walks in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

World English Bible
A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

American King James Version
The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

American Standard Version
A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.

A Faithful Version
A righteous man who walks in his integrity, his children are blessed after him.

Darby Bible Translation
The righteous walketh in his integrity: blessed are his children after him!

English Revised Version
A just man that walketh in his integrity, blessed are his children after him.

Webster's Bible Translation
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
He that walketh in his integritie, is iust: and blessed shall his children be after him.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The chyldren of the iust man which walketh vprightly, shalbe blessed after hym.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Who so ledeth a godly and an innocent life, happie shal his children be, whom he leaueth behynde him.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The righteous is habitually walking in his integrity, "" O the blessedness of his sons after him!

Young's Literal Translation
The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!

Smith's Literal Translation
The just one going about in his integrity: his sons happy after him.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The just who walks in his simplicity shall leave behind him blessed sons.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Blessed after him are the children of the righteous one who walks in integrity.

Lamsa Bible
The just man walks in his integrity; blessed are his children after him.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He that walketh in his integrity as a just man, Happy are his children after him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed.
















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