Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna — the distressed, the seeker of knowledge, the seeker of wealth, and the wise man.
BG 7.16
चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जनाः सुकृतिनोऽर्जुन | आर्तो जिज्ञासुरर्थार्थी ज्ञानी च भरतर्षभ ||१६||
catur-vidhā bhajante māṃ janāḥ sukṛtino'rjuna | ārto jijñāsur arthārthī jñānī ca bharatarṣabha || 16 ||
"Four kinds of virtuous persons worship Me: the distressed, the seeker, the ends-seeker, and the wise."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna — the distressed, the seeker of knowledge, the seeker of wealth, and the wise, O lord of the Bharatas.
Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, The Bhagavad Gītā (1905)
[5]Fourfold in division are the righteous ones who worship Me, O Arjuna: the suffering, the seeker for knowledge, the desirous of wealth, and the wise.
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]Four classes of virtuous men put their faith in me: the man oppressed by affliction, the man who seeks for knowledge, the man who seeks for treasure, and the man of wisdom.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]Four sorts of mortals know and worship Me: the suffering soul, the seeker after truth, the one who seeks for wealth — and, chief of these, the Wise Man, Arjuna!
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Four classes of men of good deeds worship me, O Arjuna — the distressed, the seeker of knowledge, the seeker of wealth, and the wise, O chief of the Bharatas.