Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Some people toil away and struggle and press on, and yet fall farther behind.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
There are those who work and struggle and hurry, but are so much the more in want.
Good News Translation®
For instance, here is someone who never stops working like a slave, but gets further behind all the time.
Wycliffe Bible
There is a man travailing, and hast(en)ing, and sorrowing, and unpious; and by so much the more he shall not have plenty [or he shall not abound].
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
There is a man who works, and toils, and presses on, but is so much the more in want.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
There are those who work and struggle and hurry but are so much the more in want.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
There are those who work and struggle and hurry, but are so much the more in want.
Common English Bible © 2011
Some people work hard, struggle, and hurry— and end up even more deeply in need.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
One may work and struggle and drive, and fall short all the same.
Revised Standard Version
There is a man who works, and toils, and presses on, but is so much the more in want.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
There are those who work and struggle and hurry, but are so much the more in want.