Translations
For it is better to die with hunger, exempt from grief and fear, than to live in affluence with perturbation;Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
For it were better to die of hunger, exempt from grief and fear, than to live in affluence with perturbation;Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
For it is better to die of hunger and so to be released from grief and fear than to live in abundance with perturbation;George Long (1890)
For it is better to die of hunger, so that you be free from pain and free from fear, than to live in plenty and be troubled in mind.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)