Proverbs 30:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³² If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² 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

³² 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)

³² If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, Lay thy hand upon thy mouth.

Common English Bible

³² If you’ve been foolish and arrogant, if you’ve been scheming, put your hand to your mouth,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² 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

³² 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.

Proverbs 30:32 Cross References

Job 21:5

Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 40:4

“See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Proverbs 17:28

Even fools who keep silent are considered wise; when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Proverbs 30:31

the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king against whom none can stand.

Romans 3:19

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.