Ecclesiastes 7:20 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

English ASV

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

English Amplified

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth who does good and never sins. [Isa. 53:6; Rom. 3:23.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth who does good and never sins. [Isa. 53:6; Rom. 3:23.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

There is certainly no one righteous on the earth who does good and never sins.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.

English EASY 2024

There is nobody on the earth who is so righteous that they always do what is right. There is nobody who never does a wrong thing.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

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Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

There is no one on earth who does what is right all the time and never makes a mistake.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Certainly, there is no one so righteous on earth that he always does what is good and never sins.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth who does good and never sins.

English KJV 1611

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

English LSB

Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who only does good and refrains from sin.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

yet there is no man on earth so just as to do good and never sin.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

There isn't anyone on earth who does only what is right and never sins.

English NIV

There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.

English NKJ 1982

For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin.

English NLT

There is not a single person in all the earth who is always good and never sins.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

And there is not a single man in all the earth who is always good and never sins.

English Tyndale 1537

For there is not one just upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 — Compare Translations