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Proverbs 30:32

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— If you have been foolish in exalting yourself Or if you have plotted [evil], [put your] hand on your mouth.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, [Lay] thy hand upon thy mouth.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thy hand upon thy mouth.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] the hand upon thy mouth.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— If thou hast acted basely by lifting thyself up,—if thou hast plotted evil, [put thy] hand to [thy] mouth!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil—hand to mouth!
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— 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.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— If thou hast bene foolish in lifting thy selfe vp, and if thou hast thought wickedly, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— If thou hast done foolishly in lifting vp thy selfe, or if thou hast thought euill, [lay] thine hand vpon thy mouth.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Covet not that you may not be reproached; do not feed yourself by things acquired wrongfully.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— If thou abandon thyself to mirth, and stretch forth thine hand in a quarrel, thou shalt be disgraced.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
If x518
(0518) Complement
אִם
'im
{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
thou hast done foolishly 5034
{5034} Prime
נָבֵל
nabel
{naw-bale'}
A primitive root; to wilt; generally to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively to despise, disgrace.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
in lifting up y5375
[5375] Standard
נָשָׂא
nasa'
{naw-saw'}
A primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, absolutely and relatively.
z8692
<8692> Grammar
Stem - Hithpael (See H8819)
Mood - Infinitive (See H8812)
Count - 116
thyself, x5375
(5375) Complement
נָשָׂא
nasa'
{naw-saw'}
A primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, absolutely and relatively.
or if x518
(0518) Complement
אִם
'im
{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
thou hast thought evil, 2161
{2161} Prime
זָמַם
zamam
{zaw-mam'}
A primitive root; to plan, usually in a bad sense.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
[lay] thine hand 3027
{3027} Prime
יָד
yad
{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.
upon thy mouth. 6310
{6310} Prime
פֶּה
peh
{peh}
From H6284; the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literally or figuratively (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Proverbs 30:32

_ _ As none can hope, successfully, to resist such a king, suppress even the thought of an attempt.

_ _ lay ... hand upon thy mouth — “lay” is well supplied (Judges 18:19; Job 29:9; Job 40:4).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Proverbs 30:29-33.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 30:32

Thought — Designed any injury against thy neighbour. Lay thine hand — Do not open thy mouth to excuse it, but repent of it, and do so no more.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Proverbs 30:32

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thy hand (p) upon thy mouth.

(p) Make a stay and continue not in doing evil.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
thou hast done:

Proverbs 26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Ecclesiastes 8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

lay:

Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding.
Job 21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.
Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Ecclesiastes 8:4 Where the word of a king [is, there is] power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Micah 7:16-17 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf. ... They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
Romans 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.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Jb 21:5; 40:4. Pv 17:28; 26:12. Ec 8:3, 4. Mi 7:16. Ro 3:19.

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