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Proverbs 30:32
Proverbs 30:32 is verse 32 of Proverbs chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
King James Version
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
World English Bible
“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
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Proverbs 30:30–33 · Berean Standard Bible
30 a lion, mighty among beasts, refusing to retreat before anything;
31 a strutting rooster; a he-goat; and a king with his army around him.
32 If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
33 For as the churning of milk yields butter, and the twisting of the nose draws blood, so the stirring of anger brings forth strife.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 26:12Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Ecclesiastes 8:3Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
Proverbs 17:28Even a fool is considered wise if he keeps silent, and discerning when he holds his tongue.
Job 21:5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
Job 40:4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
Ecclesiastes 8:4For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
Micah 7:16Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
Micah 7:17They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.