Proverbs 30:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:5 : 5 Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?
  • Prov 17:28 : 28 Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
  • Eccl 8:3-4 : 3 Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him. 4 The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
  • Mic 7:16-17 : 16 The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped. 17 They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 29:9-10
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    9 The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

    10 The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

  • Job 21:5
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    5 Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3 In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

  • Prov 30:31
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    31 The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11 A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

  • Prov 27:2
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    2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18 Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

  • Prov 17:28
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    28 Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

  • Prov 30:33
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    33 The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Job 31:27
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    27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

  • Job 13:5
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    5 If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

  • Lam 3:29
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    29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.

  • Prov 18:6
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    6 A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

  • Eccl 5:6
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    6 Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

  • Job 15:13
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    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Job 40:4
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    4 Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

  • Job 33:33
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    33 If not, give attention to me, and keep quiet, and I will give you wisdom.

  • Job 34:16
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    16 If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

  • Job 11:3
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    3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

  • Job 15:5-6
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    5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

    6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

  • Eccl 10:12
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    12 The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23 He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

  • Ps 75:5
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    5 Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

  • Prov 26:15
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    15 The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.

  • Prov 15:2
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    2 Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23 A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

  • Eccl 5:2
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    2 As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30 He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

  • Prov 10:18-19
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    18 Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

    19 Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

  • Job 11:13
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    13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

  • Prov 25:8
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    8 Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

  • Prov 26:4
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    4 Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.

  • Ps 50:21
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    21 These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

  • Eccl 4:5
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    5 The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.

  • Prov 16:23
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    23 The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.

  • Prov 29:20
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    20 Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.

  • Prov 19:24
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    24 The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.

  • Prov 25:10
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    10 Or your hearer may say evil of you, and your shame will not be turned away.

  • Prov 10:14
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    14 Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31 The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.

  • Prov 6:3
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    3 Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18 For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.