Proverbs 30:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, Lay thine hand upon thy mouth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you have done foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth. [Job 21:5; 40:4.] American Standard Version (1901) If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, Lay thy hand upon thy mouth. Common English Bible If you’ve been foolish and arrogant, if you’ve been scheming, put your hand to your mouth, Catholic Public Domain Version There is one who has appeared foolish, after he was lifted up on high; for if he had understood, he would have placed his hand over his mouth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth. |
“See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Even fools who keep silent are considered wise; when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent.
Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.
the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king against whom none can stand.
Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.