Verse List for PROV 21:4

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OET (OET-RV) Arrogance and pride—the lamp of wicked people, ⇔ → is disobeying Yahweh.

OET-LV Haughtiness _of eyes and_a_person_wide _of heart the_lamp _of wicked_people is_sin.

ULT Height of eyes and broadness of heart, ⇔ the lamp of wicked ones, are sin.

UST Being proud and arrogant guide what wicked people do like a lamp shows people where to go; ⇔  they are sinful.

BSB & MSB Haughty eyes and a proud heart— ⇔  the guides of the wicked—[are] sin.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB A high look and a proud heart, ⇔  the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

NET Haughty eyes and a proud heart – ⇔ the agricultural product of the wicked is sin.

LSV Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart,
Tillage of the wicked [is] sin.

FBV Pride and arrogance are the sins the wicked live by.[fn]

T4T ⇔  Being proud and arrogant [DOU] is like a lamp [MTY] that guides wicked people; ⇔  being proud and arrogant characterizes ◄wicked people’s whole behavior/everything that wicked people do►.

LEB • Haughtiness of the eyes and pride of heart,
• the lamp of the wicked are sin.

BBE A high look and a heart of pride, ***of the evil-doer is sin.

Moff Haughty looks, a proud heart, ⇔  showy splendour--it is all sin.

JPS A haughty look, and a proud heart — the tillage of the wicked is sin.

ASV A high look, and a proud heart, ⇔ Even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

DRA Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.

YLT Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked [is] sin.

Drby Lofty eyes, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

RV An high look, and a proud heart, even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

SLT Lifting up the eyes and enlarging the heart, the light of the unjust is sin.

Wbstr A high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

KJB-1769 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.[fn][fn]
(An high look, and a proud heart, and the ploughing of the wicked, is sin.)

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]An high looke, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sinne.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

Bshps An high looke, a proude heart, and the plowing of the vngodly is sinne.
(An high look, a proud heart, and the ploughing of the ungodly is sin.)

Gnva A hautie looke, and a proude heart, which is the light of the wicked, is sinne.
(A haughty look, and a proud heart, which is the light of the wicked, is sin.)

Cvdl A presumptuous loke, a proude stomacke, & the lanterne of the vngodly is synne.
(A presumptuous loke, a proud stomach, and the lantern of the ungodly is sin.)

Wycl Enhaunsyng of iyen is alargyng of the herte; the lanterne of wickid men is synne.
(Enhaunsing of eyes is alarging of the heart; the lantern of wicked men is sin.)

Luth Hoffärtige Augen und stolzer Mut und die Leuchte der GOttlosen ist Sünde.
(Hoffärtige eyes and proud courage/heart/spirit and the lamp/lantern the/of_the godless_one(s) is sin(n).)

ClVg Exaltatio oculorum est dilatatio cordis; lucerna impiorum peccatum.
(Exaltatio of_the_eyes it_is dilatatio of_the_heart; lamp of_the_wicked sin/transgression.)

UHB רוּם־עֵ֭ינַיִם וּ⁠רְחַב־לֵ֑ב נִ֖ר רְשָׁעִ֣ים חַטָּֽאת׃ ‡

BrLXX Μεγαλόφρων ἐν ὕβρει θρασυκάρδιος, λαμπτὴρ δὲ ἀσεβῶν ἁμαρτία.

BrTr A high-minded man is stout-hearted in his pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin.