Proverbs 21:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The proud, haughty person, named Scoffer, acts with arrogant pride.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Proud and haughty scorner is his name, Who dealeth in proud wrath.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The proud and haughty man–Scoffer is his name–deals and acts with overbearing pride.

American Standard Version (1901)

The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He worketh in the arrogance of pride.

Common English Bible

Incredibly proud—mockers are their name! Their conduct involves excessive pride.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A proud and arrogant one is also called ignorant, if he, in anger, acts according to pride.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The proud and the arrogant is called ignorant, who in anger worketh pride.

Proverbs 21:24 Cross References

Psalm 1:1

Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers,

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction one’s heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

Proverbs 19:29

Punishments are prepared for scoffers and flogging for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 24:9

The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to all.

Proverbs 3:34

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab —how proud he is!— of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; his boasts are false.

Isaiah 29:20

For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall cease to be; all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—

Jeremiah 48:29

We have heard of the pride of Moab— he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Habakkuk 2:5

Moreover, wealth is treacherous; the arrogant do not endure. They open their throats wide as Sheol; like Death they never have enough. They gather all nations for themselves and collect all peoples as their own.

Matthew 2:16

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the magi.