Proverbs 21:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ An high look, and a proud heart, Even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ An high look, and a proud heart, And the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Haughtiness of eyes and a proud heart, even the tillage of the wicked or the lamp [of joy] to them [whatever it may be], are sin [in the eyes of God].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ A high look, and a proud heart, Even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Common English Bible

⁴ Prideful eyes, an arrogant heart, and the lamp of the wicked are all sinful.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ To lift up the eyes is to enlarge the heart. The lamp of the impious is sin.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.

Proverbs 21:4 Cross References

Job 18:5

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

Psalm 10:4

The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Psalm 101:5

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy: Him that hath an high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

Psalm 131:1

LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: But the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!

Proverbs 24:20

For there will be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation, Oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.

Proverbs 6:16

There be six things which the LORD hateth; Yea, seven which are an abomination unto him:

Proverbs 6:17

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

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the froward mouth, do I hate.

Isaiah 10:12

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:17

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 3:16

Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Luke 11:34

The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

Luke 18:14

I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Romans 14:23

But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.