THEOSISProverbs 30:32Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
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.
אִם־נָבַ֥לְתָּ בְהִתְנַשֵּׂ֑א וְאִם־זַ֝מּ֗וֹתָ יָ֣ד לְפֶֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 21:5Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
- Mic 7:16The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
- Mic 7:17They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord, our God, and shall fear thee.
- Job 40:4And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
- Rom 3:19Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.
- Prov 26:12Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.
- Prov 17:28Even a fool, if he will hold his peace, shall be counted wise: and if he close his lips, a man of understanding.
- Eccl 8:3Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him: