Other translations
American Standard Version
If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because they have overthrown that which you have prepared, but what is the righteous doing?
Darby Bible Translation
If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
God's Word
When the foundations [of life] are undermined, what can a righteous person do?"
Holman Christian Standard Bible
When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
International Standard Version
When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
NET Bible
When the foundations are destroyed, what can the godly accomplish?"
New American Standard Bible
If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?"
New International Version
When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
New Living Translation
The foundations of law and order have collapsed. What can the righteous do?"
Webster's Bible Translation
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
The World English Bible
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
EasyEnglish Bible
When the law no longer has authority, righteous people can do nothing!’
Young‘s Literal Translation
When the foundations are destroyed, The righteous -- what hath he done?
New Life Version
If the base of the building is destroyed, what can those who are right with God do?”
The Voice Bible
If the foundations are crumbling, is there hope for the righteous?”
Living Bible
“Law and order have collapsed,” we are told. “What can the righteous do but flee?”
New Catholic Bible
If the foundations are destroyed, what can be done by those who are righteous?”
Legacy Standard Bible
If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?”
Jubilee Bible 2000
The foundations shall be destroyed. What has the righteous done?
Christian Standard Bible
When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
Amplified Bible © 1954
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the [unyieldingly] righteous do, or what has He [the Righteous One] wrought or accomplished?
New Century Version
When the foundations for good collapse, what can good people do?”
The Message
I’ve already run for dear life straight to the arms of God. So why would I run away now when you say, “Run to the mountains; the evil bows are bent, the wicked arrows Aimed to shoot under cover of darkness at every heart open to God. The bottom’s dropped out of the country; good people don’t have a chance”?
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
When the foundations are being torn down, what can the righteous do?”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
Good News Translation®
There is nothing a good person can do when everything falls apart.”
Wycliffe Bible
For they have destroyed, whom thou hast made perfect; but what did the rightful man? (For they shall destroy, what thou hast made good; but what can the upright do?)
Contemporary English Version
What can an honest person do when everything crumbles?”
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do”?
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?’
Common English Bible © 2011
When the very bottom of things falls out, what can a righteous person possibly accomplish?
Amplified Bible © 2015
“If the foundations [of a godly society] are destroyed, What can the righteous do?”
English Standard Version Anglicised
if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
If foundations are destroyed, what can the just one do?”
New American Standard Bible
If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?”
The Expanded Bible
When the foundations [C a stable society] collapse, what can ·good [righteous] people do?”
Tree of Life Version
If our foundations are destroyed, what should the righteous do?”
Revised Standard Version
if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do”?
New International Reader's Version
When law and order are being destroyed, what can godly people do?”
BRG Bible
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Complete Jewish Bible
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?’
Orthodox Jewish Bible
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the tzaddik do?
Names of God Bible
When the foundations of life are undermined, what can a righteous person do?”
Modern English Version
If the foundations are broken, what can the righteous do?”
Easy-to-Read Version
What would good people do if the wicked destroyed all that is good?
International Children’s Bible
When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?”
Lexham English Bible
When the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do?
New International Version - UK
When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?’