Proverbs 21:24
Modern Translations
New International Version
The proud and arrogant person--"Mocker" is his name-- behaves with insolent fury.

New Living Translation
Mockers are proud and haughty; they act with boundless arrogance.

English Standard Version
“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

Berean Study Bible
Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man—of him who acts with excessive pride.

New American Standard Bible
“Proud,” “Arrogant,” “Scoffer,” are his names, One who acts with insolent pride.

NASB 1995
"Proud," "Haughty," "Scoffer," are his names, Who acts with insolent pride.

NASB 1977
“Proud,” “Haughty,” “Scoffer,” are his names, Who acts with insolent pride.

Amplified Bible
“Proud,” “Haughty,” “Scoffer,” are his names Who acts with overbearing and insolent pride.

Christian Standard Bible
The arrogant and proud person, named “Mocker,” acts with excessive arrogance.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The proud and arrogant person, named "Mocker," acts with excessive pride.

Contemporary English Version
If you are proud and conceited, everyone will say, "You're a snob!"

Good News Translation
Show me a conceited person and I will show you someone who is arrogant, proud, and inconsiderate.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
An arrogant, conceited person is called a mocker. His arrogance knows no limits.

International Standard Version
The names "Proud," "Arrogant," and "Mocker" fit whoever acts with presumptuous conceit.

NET Bible
A proud and arrogant person, whose name is "Scoffer," acts with overbearing pride.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

New King James Version
A proud and haughty man—“Scoffer” is his name; He acts with arrogant pride.

King James 2000 Bible
Proud and haughty scoffer is his name, who deals in arrogant pride.

New Heart English Bible
The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

World English Bible
The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

American King James Version
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in proud wrath.

American Standard Version
The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He worketh in the arrogance of pride.

A Faithful Version
A proud and haughty scorner is his name who acts with arrogant rage.

Darby Bible Translation
Proud, arrogant, scorner is his name who dealeth in proud wrath.

English Revised Version
The proud and haughty man, scorner is his name, he worketh in the arrogance of pride.

Webster's Bible Translation
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Proude, hautie and scornefull is his name that worketh in his arrogancie wrath.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
He that is proude and arrogant; is called a scorner, whiche in his wrath worketh presumptuously.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
He yt is proude & presumptuous, is called a scornefull ma, which in wrath darre worke maliciously.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Proud, haughty, scorner—his name, "" Who is working in the wrath of pride.

Young's Literal Translation
Proud, haughty, scorner is his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.

Smith's Literal Translation
Proud, arrogant, mocking, is his name doing in the wrath of pride.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The proud and the arrogant is called ignorant, who in anger worketh pride.

Catholic Public Domain Version
A proud and arrogant one is also called ignorant, if he, in anger, acts according to pride.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
An insolent one whose name is mighty does evil in his wrath.

Lamsa Bible
In his wrath a hasty and proud man commits iniquity.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
A proud and haughty man, scorner is his name, Even he that dealeth in overbearing pride.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A bold and self-willed and insolent man is called a pest: and he that remembers injuries is a transgressor.
















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