Proverbs 21:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁴ The proud and haughty man, scorner is his name, He worketh in the arrogance of pride.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Proud and haughty scorner is his name, Who dealeth in proud wrath.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ The proud and haughty man–Scoffer is his name–deals and acts with overbearing pride.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He worketh in the arrogance of pride.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Incredibly proud—mockers are their name! Their conduct involves excessive pride.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ A proud and arrogant one is also called ignorant, if he, in anger, acts according to pride.

Proverbs 21:24 Cross References

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, And before honour goeth humility.

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scorners delight them in scorning, And fools hate knowledge?

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had carefully learned of the wise men.

Jeremiah 48:29

We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goeth before destruction, And an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 6:17

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

Proverbs 3:34

Surely he scorneth the scorners, But he giveth grace unto the lowly.

Proverbs 24:9

The thought of the foolish is sin: And the scorner is an abomination to men.

Isaiah 29:20

For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off:

Habakkuk 2:5

Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer, a haughty man, and that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as hell, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.