Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
- BSB Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.
- ESV Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.
- NKJV Be surety for Your servant for good; Do not let the proud oppress me.
- NASB Be a guarantor for Your servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.
- NLT Please guarantee a blessing for me. Don’t let the arrogant oppress me!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Heb 7:22By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
- Ps 119:21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
- Isa 38:14I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
- Job 17:3“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
- Prov 22:26–27Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
- Gen 43:9I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,
- Phlm 1:18–19But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account.
- Ps 36:11Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
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