Proverbs 30:32
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
KJV
Est qui stultus apparuit postquam elevatus est in sublime ; si enim intellexisset, ori suo imposuisset manum.
Vulgate
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, Lay thy hand upon thy mouth.
ASV
אִם נָבַ֥לְתָּ בְ/הִתְנַשֵּׂ֑א וְ/אִם זַ֝מּ֗וֹתָ יָ֣ד לְ/פֶֽה
Hebrew
There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
זָמַ֖ם
zmm
verb · 13×
י
y
noun · 496×
יִבֹּ֑לוּ
yblv
verb · 25×
יִּשְׂא֥וּ
ysh'v
verb · 652×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Job 21:5 — Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- Job 21:5 — Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- Job 29:9 — The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
- Job 40:4 — Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
- Job 40:4 — Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
- Judg 18:19 — And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou
- Mic 7:16 — The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
- Num 12:11 — And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
- Prov 26:12 — Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
- Rom 3:19 — Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.