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32 If you have been foolish by exalting yourself,
    and if you have devised evil, put your hand to your mouth.

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32 If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself[a]
or if you have planned evil,
put[b] your hand over your mouth!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:32 tn The construction has the ב (bet) preposition with the Hitpael infinitive construct, forming a temporal clause. This clause explains the way in which the person has acted foolishly.
  2. Proverbs 30:32 tn Heb “hand to mouth.” This expression means “put your hand to your mouth” (e.g., Job 40:4, 5); cf. NIV “clap your hand over.”