Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 cock ready to fight; A ram; and a king that goeth forth with his people. 32 If thou be so foolish to magnify thyself, or meddlest with any such thing, then lay thine hand upon thy mouth. 33 Who so churneth milk, maketh butter; he that rubbeth his nose, maketh it bleed; and he that causeth wrath, bringeth forth strife.
Cross References
Job 21:5
Mark me well, and be abashed, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job 40:4
"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.
Proverbs 17:28
Yea, a very fool, when he holdeth his tongue, is counted wise; and to have understanding, when he shutteth his lips.
Proverbs 26:12
If thou seest a man that is wise in his own conceit, there is more hope in a fool than in him.
Ecclesiastes 8:3-4
Be not hasty to go out of his sight, and see thou continue in no evil thing: for whatsoever it pleaseth him, that doeth he.
Micah 7:16-17
This shall the Heathen see, and be ashamed for all their power: so that they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, and stop their ears.
Romans 3:19
Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,