Proverbs 30:32

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

Cross References

Job 21:5

Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 40:4

“See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Proverbs 17:28

Even fools who keep silent are considered wise; when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Proverbs 30:31

the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king against whom none can stand.

Romans 3:19

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