Deuteronomy 32:29 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
MSB Majority Standard Bible
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
LSV Literal Standard Version
If only they were wise, || They would deal wisely [with] this, || They would attend to their latter end!
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
Oh that they were wise, then they would vnderstand this: they would consider their latter ende.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their coming fate!
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
They had not sense to understand: Let them reserve these things against the time to come.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
If they were wise — They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to their latter end:
FBV Free Bible Version
How I wish they were wise, so they could understand it; they would recognize what was going to happen to them.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
¡Ojalá fueran sabios, que comprendieran esto, y entendieran su postrimería!
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
¡Oh, si tuvieran sabiduría! ¡Oh, si tuvieran entendimiento! ¡Oh, si supieran el fin que les espera!
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
¡Quién diera que fueran sabios para entender esto! ¡Que ellos entendieran su futuro!
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
¡Cómo me gustaría que fueran sabios, para que pudieran entenderlo; así reconocerían cuál puede ser su fin!
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
¡Si fueran sabios y entendieran esto, pensarían en su futuro!
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Οὐκ ἐφρόνησαν συνιέναι· ταῦτα καταδεξάσθωσαν εἰς τὸν ἐπιόντα χρόνον.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
ל֥וּ חָכְמ֖וּ יַשְׂכִּ֣ילוּ זֹ֑את יָבִ֖ינוּ לְאַחֲרִיתָֽם׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Utinam saperent, et intelligerent, ac novissima providerent.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
сїѧ̑ всѧ̑ да прїи́мꙋтъ во грѧдꙋ́щее лѣ́то.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
О, если бы они рассудили, подумали о сем, уразумели, что с ними будет!
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Είθε να ήσαν σοφοί, να ενόουν τούτο, να εσυλλογίζοντο το τέλος αυτών
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Камо да су паметни, да разумеју ово, и гледају на крај свој!
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Kamo da su pametni, da razumeju ovo, i gledaju na kraj svoj!
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
لَوْ عَقَلُوا لَفَطِنُوا بِهَذِهِ وَتَأَمَّلُوا آخِرَتَهُمْ.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT