Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, [put your] hand to [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.
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.
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 a strutting rooster or he-goat, and a king [whose] army [is] with him. 32 If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, [put your] hand to [your] mouth. 33 For pressing milk produces curd, and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing {anger} produces strife.
Cross References
Job 21:5
Turn to me and be appalled, and place [your] hand on [your] mouth.
Job 40:4
"Look, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool who keeps silent {shall be considered wise}; he who closes his lips [is] intelligent.
Proverbs 26:12
[Do] you see a man wise in his own eyes? [There is more] hope for a fool than for him.
Ecclesiastes 8:3-4
Do not be terrified of his presence! Go at once and do not delay when a matter [is] unpleasant, for he can do anything that he desires.
Micah 7:16-17
The nations will see and be ashamed because of all their might. They will lay [the] hand on [the] mouth; their ears will be deaf.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.