Hosea 4:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ “However, let no one strive or reprove another, for your people are like those striving with a priest.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove [another–do not waste your time in mutual recriminations], for with you is My contention, O priest.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Common English Bible

⁴ Yet let no one protest, and let no one complain. Listen, priest, I am angry with your people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ So, truly, let each and every one not judge, and let no man be accused, for your people are just like those who speak against the priesthood.

Hosea 4:4 Cross References

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Yirmeyahu, for the Torah shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.”

Ezekiel 3:26

“And I make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be dumb and not be a reprover to them, for they are a rebellious house.

Hosea 4:17

“Ephrayim is joined to idols, let him alone.

Amos 5:10

They hated the one who reproves in the gate, and they despise the one who speaks the truth.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time.

Amos 6:10

And if a relative, or his undertaker, brings the remains out of the house, he shall say to one inside the house, “Is anyone with you?” and he says, “No,” then he shall say, “Hush!” For we have not remembered the Name of יהוה!

Deuteronomy 17:12

“And the man who acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the priest who stands to serve there before יהוה  your Elohim, or to the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ĕ