Parallel Verses
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.
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.
International Standard Version
If you've foolishly exalted yourself or if you've plotted evil, 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.
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 war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him. 32 If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth. 33 The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.
Cross References
Job 21:5
Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.
Job 40:4
Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.
Proverbs 17:28
Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
Proverbs 26:12
Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
Ecclesiastes 8:3-4
Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
Micah 7:16-17
The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.
Romans 3:19
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: