Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

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 said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.


Cross References

Exodus 32:9

And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Ezekiel 2:4

For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

Acts 7:51

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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