Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
- BSB Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
- ESV Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
- NKJV Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment.
- NASB Therefore arrogance is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.
- NLT They wear pride like a jeweled necklace and clothe themselves with cruelty.
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Quick answer
Because of their ease, pride adorns the wicked like a necklace and violence clothes them like a garment.
Overview
Their prosperity breeds open arrogance and cruelty, worn as if they were ornaments. Pride and violence become their very identity. Scripture consistently warns that pride precedes destruction, and the psalm will show God bringing the proud low (Proverbs 16:18).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 109:18As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
- 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
- Judg 8:26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
- Prov 1:9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
- Dan 4:30The 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?
- Prov 3:31Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
- Prov 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
- Ezek 16:11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
- Deut 8:13–14And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
- Deut 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Mic 3:5Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
- Song 4:9Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
- Eccl 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- Ezek 28:2–5Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
- Jer 48:29We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
- Esth 5:9–11Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
- Mic 2:1–2Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Gen 41:42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
- Jas 5:4–6Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
- Jer 48:11Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
- Esth 3:1After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
- Esth 3:5–6And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
- Job 21:7–15Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- Isa 3:19The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
- Ps 109:29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
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