Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Yet, let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for thy people are as those who strive with the priest.
New American Standard Bible
For your people are like those who
King James Version
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Holman Bible
for My case is against you priests.
International Standard Version
"Let no one fight or bring charges against another, for my dispute is with you, priest.
American Standard Version
Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Amplified
Yet let no one find fault, nor let any rebuke [others];
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
Bible in Basic English
Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.
Darby Translation
Yet let no man strive, and let no man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Julia Smith Translation
But a man shall not contend, and he shall not admonish a man: and my people as contending with the priest.
King James 2000
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yet, let no one contend, and let no one accuse, for with you, O priest, [is my] contention.
Modern King James verseion
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another. For your people are as those who strive with the priest.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yet is there none, that will chasten nor reprove another. The priests which should reform other men, are become like the people.
NET Bible
Do not let anyone accuse or contend against anyone else: for my case is against you priests!
New Heart English Bible
"Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
The Emphasized Bible
Howbeit let, no man, contend, nor let him rebuke another, - since, thy people, are as they who contend against a priest:
Webster
Yet let no man contend, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that contend with the priest.
World English Bible
"Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people are as those striving with a priest.
Themes
Knowledge » The reward for lacking knowledge
Priest » The function he served was superior to that of other priests » Judicial
Interlinear
Yakach
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Accuses The Priests
3 Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yea, the fishes of the sea shall also be taken away. 4 Yet, let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for thy people are as those who strive with the priest. 5 And thou shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night. And I will destroy thy mother.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:12
And the man who does presumptuously, in not hearkening to the priest who stands to minister there before LORD thy God, or to the judge, even that man shall die, and thou shall put away the evil from Israel.
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.
Amos 5:13
Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi
Ezekiel 3:26
And I will make thy tongue cling to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shall be mute, and shall not be a reprover to them, for they are a rebellious house.
Amos 6:10
And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No, then he sh
Matthew 7:3-6
And why do thou see the speck in thy brother's eye, but do not notice the beam in thine own eye?