Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.

King James Version

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Holman Bible

I will destroy anyone
who secretly slanders his neighbor;
I cannot tolerate anyone
with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.

International Standard Version

I will destroy the one who secretly slanders a friend. I will not allow the proud and haughty to prevail.

A Conservative Version

He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

American Standard Version

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

Amplified


Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will silence;
The one who has a haughty look and a proud (arrogant) heart I will not tolerate.

Darby Translation

Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

Julia Smith Translation

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

King James 2000

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.

Lexham Expanded Bible

One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. [One] haughty of eyes and {arrogant} of heart, him I will not endure.

Modern King James verseion

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Who so privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy. Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomach, I will not suffer him.

NET Bible

I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a cocky demeanor and an arrogant attitude.

New Heart English Bible

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

The Emphasized Bible

He that uttereth slander in secret against his friend, him, will I root out; One of lofty eyes, and of an ambitious heart, him shall I not be able to endure.

Webster

Whoever privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

World English Bible

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

Youngs Literal Translation

Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

References

Context Readings

A Vow Of Integrity

4 A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know a wicked person. 5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.
6 My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he that walks in the way of perfection, he shall serve me.

Cross References

Psalm 18:27

Therefore thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down high looks.

Psalm 50:20

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

Psalm 15:3

He that does not backbite with his tongue nor do evil to his neighbour nor take up a reproach against his neighbour.

Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour.

Exodus 23:1

Thou shalt not admit a false rumour; put not thine hand with the wicked to be a false witness.

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not travel about as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:3

Do not multiply thyself speaking great and lofty things; let arrogant words cease from your mouth, for the LORD is the all-knowing God, and the magnificent works are his.

Job 40:11-12

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and behold every one that is proud and bring him down.

Psalm 10:2-4

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 138:6

For the LORD, who is high and lifted up, looks upon the humble, but the proud he does not know.

Proverbs 6:16-19

These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

Proverbs 10:18

He that hides hatred has lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

Proverbs 20:19

He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind drives away rain, so does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Ezekiel 22:9

In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood; and in thee they eat upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and build up and glorify the King of heaven because all his works are truth, and his ways judgment: and he is able to humble those that walk with arrogance.

Obadiah 1:3-4

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for anyone that exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I have written unto you not to associate with anyone calling himself a brother if he is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner; with such a one do not even eat.

1 Timothy 3:11

The wives likewise are to be honest, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty;

1 Peter 5:5-6

Likewise, young people, be subject to the elders in such a manner that you are all subject to one another. Be clothed with humility of will, for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.

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