Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Don't use your strength to fight heaven or speak from stubborn arrogance."

New American Standard Bible

Do not lift up your horn on high,
Do not speak with insolent pride.’”

King James Version

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

Holman Bible

Do not lift up your horn against heaven
or speak arrogantly.’”

A Conservative Version

Lift not up your horn on high. Speak not with a stiff neck.

American Standard Version

Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck.

Amplified


‘Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high,
Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”

Bible in Basic English

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

Darby Translation

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a stiff neck.

Julia Smith Translation

Ye shall not lift up your horn to elevation: ye will speak with an impudent neck.

King James 2000

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not lift up high your horn. Do [not] speak with {arrogant pride}.'"

Modern King James verseion

do not lift up your horn on high; nor speak with a stiff neck.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Set not up your horn on high, and speak not with a stiff neck."

NET Bible

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

New Heart English Bible

Do not lift up your horn on high. Do not speak with a stiff neck."

The Emphasized Bible

Do not lift up on high your horn, Nor speak of the Rock, with arrogance;

Webster

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

World English Bible

Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."

Youngs Literal Translation

Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

References

Hastings

Context Readings

God Judges The Wicked

4 I will say to the proud, "Don't brag," and to the wicked, "Don't vaunt your strength. 5 Don't use your strength to fight heaven or speak from stubborn arrogance." 6 For exaltation comes not from the east, the west, or the wilderness,


Cross References

Exodus 32:9

Then the LORD told Moses, "I've seen these people and indeed they're obstinate.

Deuteronomy 31:27

because indeed I know your rebellion and stubbornness. Note that even while I'm still alive, you've been rebelling against the LORD how much more so after my death!

2 Chronicles 30:8

So don't be stiff-necked like your ancestors were. Instead, submit to the LORD, enter his sanctuary that he has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God so that he'll stop being angry with you.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and because your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze,

Ezekiel 2:4

They're stubborn and strong willed. I'm sending you to them to tell them what the LORD says.

Acts 7:51

"You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

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