Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people are as those striving with a 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.
A Conservative Version
Yet, let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for thy people are as those who strive with the 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.
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 mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea -- they are removed. 4 Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people are as those striving with a priest. 5 And thou hast stumbled in the day, And stumbled hath also a prophet with thee in the night, And I have cut off thy mother.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:12
And the man who acteth with presumption, so as not to hearken unto the priest (who is standing to serve there Jehovah thy God), or unto the judge, even that man hath died, and thou hast put away the evil thing from Israel,
Hosea 4:17
Joined to idols is Ephraim, let him alone.
Amos 5:13
Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it is.
Jeremiah 18:18
And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
Ezekiel 3:26
and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house are they.
Amos 6:10
And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who is in the sides of the house, 'Is there yet with thee?' And he said, 'None,' then he said, 'Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'
Matthew 7:3-6
And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that is in thine own eye dost not consider?