中译版圣经:

• 饿死的不如被刀杀的，因为这是缺了田间的土产，就身体衰弱，渐渐消灭。
• 新中译版圣经:饿死的不如被刀杀的，因为这是缺了田间的土产，就身体衰弱，渐渐消灭。
• 新世纪圣经:那些死于刀下的比饿死的还好；饿死的因缺乏田间的出产，就日渐消瘦而死亡。
• LCC:被刀刺死的比被饥荒害死的好，因为前者虽被刺伤，还可以吃（传统∶流去）田间的出产。
• TCB:战死沙场的，比饿死的人幸福；因为后者被饥饿折磨而死。
• 当代圣经:与其死於饥饿，倒不如死於刀下；因为农作失收，人人都活活饿死。
• CSG:死於刀下的，比死於 饿的，即因缺乏田产，日渐衰弱而死的，更为幸运。

英译版圣经:

• 新国际版圣经:Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of famine; racked with hunger, they waste away for lack of food from the field.
• NRSV:Happier were those pierced by the sword than those pierced by hunger, whose life drains away, deprived of the produce of the field.
• NASV:Better are those slain with the sword Than those slain with hunger; For they pine away, being stricken For lack of the fruits of the field.
• 古老版圣经:[They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.
• ASV:They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
• 基础英语版圣经:Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.
• DBY:The slain with the sword are happier than the slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
• 标准修订版圣经:Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who pined away, stricken by want of the fruits of the field.
• 直译圣经95版:Better are those slain with the sword Than those slain with hunger; For they pine away, being stricken For lack of the fruits of the field.
• 直译圣经77版:Better are those slain with the sword Than those slain with hunger; For they pine away, being stricken For lack of the fruits of the field.
• WEB:[They that are] slain with the sword are better than [they that are] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.
• YLT:Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.

希伯来语圣经:

• s .yd;c; tboWnT]mi !yrIQ;dum] WbWzy: !hev, b[;r; ylel]j'me br,j,Aylel]j' Wyh; !ybi/f

内容备注:

多语对照圣经中的一节平均而言是一句，包含有12个不同的英文译本，和6个中文译本，以及一个希伯来语本（圣经旧约使用希伯来语和亚兰语书写，新约用希腊语书写）

NIV:新国际版（New International Version，简称NIV）是一个当代英语圣经译本，也是目前在英语国家被最为广泛使用的圣经版本,适合个人研读之用的译本。
NCB: New Century Bible 《新世纪圣经》
LCC:(Library of Christian Classes）
CLB:当代圣经译本(The Chinese Living Bible, CLB)
KJV:詹姆士钦定本是近古英文,是现在所能见到的最老的英译本
BBE:基础英语供移民和儿童阅读
NRSV:是新标准修订版
NASB:用纯粹直译方法（Strictly Literal）的译本
BHS:希伯来语原文圣经

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• hunger [´hʌŋgə]   n.饥饿；渴望   (初中英语单词)
• international [,intə´næʃənəl]   a.国际的，世界的   (初中英语单词)
• famine [´fæmin]   n.饥荒   (高中英语单词)
• stricken [´strikən]   strike的过去分词   (高中英语单词)