Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
If you've foolishly exalted yourself or if you've plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
New American Standard Bible
Or if you have plotted evil,
King James Version
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
Holman Bible
or if you’ve been scheming,
put your hand over your mouth.
A Conservative Version
If thou have done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou have thought evil, [lay] thy hand upon thy mouth.
American Standard Version
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, Lay thy hand upon thy mouth.
Amplified
If you have foolishly exalted yourself,
Or if you have plotted evil, put your hand on your mouth.
Bible in Basic English
If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.
Darby Translation
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay the hand upon thy mouth.
Julia Smith Translation
If thou wert foolish in lifting up thyself, and if thou purposed, the hand to the mouth.
King James 2000
If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, [put your] hand to [your] mouth.
Modern King James verseion
If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand on your mouth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou be so foolish to magnify thyself, or meddlest with any such thing, then lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
NET Bible
If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth!
New Heart English Bible
"If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
The Emphasized Bible
If thou hast acted basely by lifting thyself up, - if thou hast plotted evil, put thy hand to thy mouth!
Webster
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.
World English Bible
"If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
Youngs Literal Translation
If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Keep Calm And Quiet
31 The strutting rooster, as well as the goat, and a king with his army. 32 If you've foolishly exalted yourself or if you've plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth. 33 Just as whipping milk produces butter, and twisting the nose causes bleeding, so also stirring up anger produces contention.
Cross References
Job 21:5
Look at me, be appalled, and then shut up!
Job 40:4
"I must look insignificant to you! How can I answer you? I'm speechless.
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool is thought to be wise when he remains silent; he is thought to be prudent when he keeps his mouth shut.
Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man who is wise in his own opinion? There's more hope for a fool than for him.
Ecclesiastes 8:3-4
Don't be in a hurry to leave him, and don't persist in evil, for he does whatever he pleases.
Micah 7:16-17
The nations will look on and will be ashamed in spite of all their power; they will cup their hands over their mouths, and their ears will be deaf.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.