Proverbs 21:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ A haughty look, a proud heart, The lamp of the wrong, are 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.

Proverbs 21:4 Cross References

Job 18:5

Indeed, the light of the wrong goes out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp beside him is put out.

Psalm 10:4

In the pride of his face The wrongdoer does not seek Him, In all his thoughts there is no Elohim!

Psalm 101:5

Him who secretly slanders his neighbour I cut off; I do not tolerate one Who has a haughty look and a proud heart.

Psalm 131:1

O יהוה, my heart has not been proud, Nor have my eyes been haughty. Neither have I concerned myself with great matters, Nor with those too wondrous for me.

Proverbs 15:8

The slaughtering of the wrong ones Is an abomination to יהוה, But the prayer of the straight is His delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The slaughtering of the wrong is an abomination; How much more when he brings it with wickedness!

Proverbs 24:20

For there is no future for the evil-doer; The lamp of the wrongdoers is put out.

Proverbs 30:13

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

Proverbs 6:16

These six matters יהוה  hates, And seven are an abomination to Him:

Proverbs 6:17

A proud look, A lying tongue, And hands shedding innocent blood,

Proverbs 8:13

“The fear of יהוה  is to hate evil. I have hated pride and arrogance, And the evil way, And the perverse mouth.

Isaiah 10:12

“And it shall be, when יהוה  has performed all His work on Mount Tsiyon and on Yerushalayim, that I shall punish the fruit of the greatness of the heart of the sovereign of Ashshur, and the boasting of his haughty looks.

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the pride of men shall be bowed down, and יהוה  alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:17

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

Isaiah 3:16

And יהוה  says, “Because the daughters of Tsiyon are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,

Luke 11:34

“The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, all your body also is enlightened. But when your eye is evil, your body also is darkened.

Luke 18:14

“I say to you, this man went down to his house declared right, rather than the other. For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.”

Romans 14:23

But he who doubts, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not of belief, and all that is not of belief is sin.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you younger ones, be subject to elders. And gird yourselves with humility toward one another, for “Elohim resists the proud, but gives favour to the humble.”