Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
New American Standard Bible
All who do wickedness
King James Version
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Holman Bible
all the evildoers boast.
International Standard Version
When they speak, they spew arrogance. Everyone who practices iniquity brags about it.
A Conservative Version
They prate, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
American Standard Version
They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
Amplified
They pour out words, speaking arrogant things;
All who do evil boast proudly.
Bible in Basic English
Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.
Darby Translation
How long shall they utter and speak insolence all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Julia Smith Translation
They will utter, they will speak impudently; all they working iniquity will boast themselves.
King James 2000
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{They gush words} unrestrained. All [the] evildoers boast.
Modern King James verseion
They gush; they speak impudent things; all the workers of iniquity speak proudly.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully, and make such proud boasting?
NET Bible
They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
New Heart English Bible
They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
The Emphasized Bible
They pour forth words , they speak arrogantly, All the workers of iniquity, do boast:
Webster
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
World English Bible
They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
Interlinear
Pa`al
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 94:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors
3 Till when do the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult? 4 They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves. 5 Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.
Cross References
Psalm 31:18
Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
Psalm 52:1
To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, 'David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God is all the day.
Exodus 15:9-10
The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: --
Job 21:14-15
And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
Psalm 10:2-7
Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
Psalm 59:7
Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for 'Who heareth?'
Psalm 59:12
The sin of their mouth is a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
Psalm 64:3-4
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.
Psalm 73:8-9
They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
Psalm 140:3
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.
Proverbs 30:14
A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.
Isaiah 10:13-15
For he hath said, 'By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,
Isaiah 37:24-25
By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
Jeremiah 18:18
And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
Daniel 7:8
I was considering about the horns, and lo, another horn, a little one, hath come up between them, and three of the first horns have been eradicated from before it, and lo, eyes as the eyes of man are in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.
Daniel 7:11
'I was seeing, then, because of the voice of the great words that the horn is speaking, I was seeing till that the beast is slain, and his body hath been destroyed, and given to the burning fire;
Daniel 7:25
and words as an adversary of the Most High it doth speak, and the saints of the Most High it doth wear out, and it hopeth to change seasons and law; and they are given into its hand, till a time, and times, and a division of a time.
Daniel 8:11
And unto the prince of the host it exerteth itself, and by it taken away hath been the continual sacrifice, and thrown down the base of his sanctuary.
Daniel 11:36-37
'And the king hath done according to his will, and exalteth himself, and magnifieth himself against every god, and against the God of gods he speaketh wonderful things, and hath prospered till the indignation hath been completed, for that which is determined hath been done.
Matthew 12:24
but the Pharisees having heard, said, 'This one doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons.'
Matthew 12:34
Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
Jude 1:14-15
And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam -- Enoch -- saying, 'Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads,
Revelation 13:5-6
And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months,