[和合本] 但这些人毁谤他们所不知道的。他们本性所知道的事与那没有灵性的畜类一样，在这事上竟败坏了自己。
[新标点] 但这些人毁谤他们所不知道的。他们本性所知道的事与那没有灵性的畜类一样，在这事上竟败坏了自己。
[和合修] 但这些人毁谤他们所不知道的。他们与那些没有理性的牲畜一样，只做本性所知道的事，败坏了自己。
[新译本] 但这些人毁谤他们所不知道的，他们只知道按本性所能领悟的事，好像没有理性的禽兽，就因这些事败坏了自己。
[当代修] 这些人却毁谤自己不明白的事，像没有理性的野兽一样凭本能行事，结果自取灭亡。
[现代修] 可是，这些人竟毁谤他们所不了解的事，像野兽一样随着本能去做那些毁灭自己的事。
[吕振中] 但这些人呢、凡他们所不懂的、他们竟毁谤；凡他们顺兽性、像无理性的畜生、所明白的，他们竟在其中败坏了自己！
[思高本] 这些人却不然，凡他们所不明白的事就亵渎，而他们按本性所体验的事，却像无理性的畜牲一样，就在这些事上败坏自己。
[文理本] 惟斯人谤讟其所不知、且其本性所悟、一如无理之禽兽、于此则见灭矣、○
[GNT] But these people attack with insults anything they do not understand; and those things that they know by instinct, like wild animals, are the very things that destroy them.
[BBE] But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.
[KJV] But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
[NKJV] But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
[KJ21] But these speak evil of those things which they know not; but what they come to know naturally as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
[NASB] But these people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and all the things that they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.
[NRSV] But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.
[WEB] But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
[ESV] But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
[NIV] Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals--these are the very things that destroy them.
[NIrV] But those people speak evil things against what they don't understand. They are like wild animals. They can't think for themselves. They do what comes naturally to them. Those are the very things that destroy them.
[HCSB] Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit, and have perished in Korah's rebellion.
[CSB] Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit, and have perished in Korah's rebellion.
[AMP] But these men revile (scoff and sneer at) anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not understand; and whatever they do understand physically [that which they know by mere instinct], like irrational beasts--by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed (perish).
[NLT] But these people scoff at things they do not understand. Like unthinking animals, they do whatever their instincts tell them, and so they bring about their own destruction.
[YLT] and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;