Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
If thou wert foolish in lifting up thyself, and if thou purposed, the hand to the 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.
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.
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 One girded in loins, or a he goat; and a king, no rising up with him. 32 If thou wert foolish in lifting up thyself, and if thou purposed, the hand to the mouth. 33 For the pressure of milk will bring forth cheese, and the pressure of the nose will bring forth blood: and the pressure of wrath will, bring forth contention.
Cross References
Job 21:5
Look to me and be astonished, and put the hand upon the mouth.
Job 40:4
Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.
Proverbs 17:28
Also the foolish one being silent shall be thought wise: and he shutting his lips, understanding.
Proverbs 26:12
Sawest thou a man wise in his eyes? hope is for the foolish one more than for him.
Ecclesiastes 8:3-4
Thou shalt not hasten going from his face: thou shalt not stand by the word of evil; for he shall do all that he will desire.
Micah 7:16-17
The nations shall see and be ashamed from all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Romans 3:19
And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God.