[和合本] 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。
[新标点] 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。
[和合修] 被刀剑刺杀的胜过因饥饿而死【“死”：原文是“被刺杀”】的；饥饿者由于缺乏田里的出产就消瘦而亡【“亡”：原文是“刺穿”】。
[新译本] 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。
[当代修] 死于刀下的胜过死于饥饿的，后者因田间缺粮而活活饿死。
[现代修] 战死沙场的，比饿死的人幸福；因为后者被饥饿折磨而死。
[吕振中] 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。
[思高本] 死于刀下的，比死于饥饿的，即因缺乏田产，日渐衰弱而死的，更为幸运。
[文理本] 戮于刃者、较死于饥者犹幸兮、因乏田间之产、日渐衰弱、如被刺兮、
[GNT] Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.
[BBE] 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.
[KJV] 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.
[NKJV] [Those] slain by the sword are better off Than [those] who die of hunger; For these pine away, Stricken [for lack] of the fruits of the field.
[KJ21] 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.
[NASB] Better off are those killed by the sword Than those killed by hunger; For they (Lit flow away)waste away, (Lit pierced through)stricken By the lack of the produce of 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.
[WEB] Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.
[ESV] Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.
[NIV] 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.
[NIrV] Those who have been killed with swords are better off than those who have to die of hunger. Those who are hungry waste away to nothing. They don't have any food from the fields.
[HCSB] Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced [with pain] because the fields lack produce.
[CSB] Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced [with pain] because the fields lack produce.
[AMP] Those who are slain with the sword are more fortunate than those who are the victims of hunger [slain by the famine]; for they [the hungry] pine and ebb away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
[NLT] Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger. Starving, they waste away for lack of food from the fields.
[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.