KJV King James Version
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.
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Isaiah 32:5
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.
WEB World English Bible
The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
ASV American Standard Version
The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A fool is no more called ‘noble,’ And to a miser it is not said, ‘rich;’
Surrounding context — Isaiah 32
2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
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Isaiah 5:20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!Malachi 3:18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.Psalm 15:4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and changeth not.Proverbs 23:6-8Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, [even] Nabal: for as his name [is], so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.1 Samuel 25:3-8Now the name of the man [was] Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and [she was] a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the house of Caleb.
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