Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageI say to the arrogant, "Stop your boasting!" and to the wicked, "Do not lift up your horn!"
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GI say to the boasters, "Do not boast!" and to the wicked, "Do not raise the horn!"
KJV
King James VersionI said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
BSB
Berean Standard BibleI say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.
Footnotes
*Qeren* ("horn") is one of the Old Testament's most charged images of power — the raised horn of a bull signals strength, aggression, and territorial dominance. To "lift the horn" is an act of proud self-assertion. The *holelim* ("boasters") are not merely immodest — the root *halal* in this intensive form carries the sense of reckless, almost manic self-exaltation (cognate forms in Arabic suggest howling or raging). The divine judicial voice here directly confronts the posture condemned in vv. 4–5, which will be overturned in v. 10 — the horn motif forms the psalm's structural spine. Both translations preserve the horn imagery as essential to the psalm's central argument; it cannot be domesticated into mere pride.