Proverbs 30:32

Modern English Version

If you have done foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have devised evil, lay your hand on your mouth.

Cross References

Job 21:5

Look at me and be astonished, and put your hand over your mouth.

Job 40:4

“Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer You? I will lay my hand over my mouth.

Proverbs 17:28

Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is considered wise; when he shuts his lips he is deemed a man of understanding.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 30:31

the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king whose army is with him.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced, and all the world may become accountable to God.