Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
- BSB Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
- NKJV “Talk no more so very proudly; Let no arrogance come from your mouth, For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.
- NASB “Do not go on boasting so very proudly, Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth; For the Lord is a God of knowledge, And with Him actions are weighed.
- NLT “Stop acting so proud and haughty! Don’t speak with such arrogance! For the Lord is a God who knows what you have done; he will judge your actions.
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Quick answer
Hannah warns against proud, arrogant speech, for God knows all and weighs every action. Human boasting is folly before the all-knowing Judge.
Overview
Hannah's words rebuke the arrogance of those like Peninnah, and ultimately Eli's sons, who presume on their advantages. Because God is a 'God of knowledge' who weighs deeds, no pride escapes His just assessment. This confidence in divine judgment assures the humble that the Lord sees and will set things right.
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- 1 Kgs 8:39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
- Prov 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
- Prov 24:12If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
- Jude 1:15–16To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
- Heb 4:12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
- Prov 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
- Ps 94:4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
- 1 Sam 16:7But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
- Ps 94:7–10Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
- Dan 4:30–31The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
- Isa 37:23Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
- Ps 44:21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
- Ps 147:5Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
- Job 31:6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
- Dan 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Rev 2:23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
- Dan 5:27TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- Mal 3:13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
- Jer 17:10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
- Isa 26:7The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
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