Proverbs 30:32

Modern

If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

Traditional

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

Literal

If you have been foolish in lifting up yourself, and if you have schemed—hand to mouth!

Latin

Est qui stultus apparuit postquam elevatus est in sublime; si enim intellexisset, ori suo imposuisset manum.

Hebrew

English

If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

Job 21:5
Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
Romans 3:19
Now 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.
Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Micah 7:16–17
Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
Job 40:4
“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool is considered wise if he keeps silent, and discerning when he holds his tongue.
Ecclesiastes 8:3–4
Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.