Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message"Do not thrust your horn toward the heavens; do not speak with a stiff and defiant neck!"
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G"Do not raise your horn on high; do not speak with a brazen neck!"
KJV
King James VersionLift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleDo not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”
Footnotes
*Tsavvar atak* ("arrogant/brazen neck") is a striking body-language idiom — *atak* means insolent, presumptuous, hard-edged (from a root suggesting removal or displacement, hence "impudent"). The "stiff neck" (*qesheh oref*) elsewhere describes Israel's covenant rebellion at Sinai (Exod. 32:9; Deut. 9:13); here the arrogant *neck* captures the physical posture of one who flatly refuses to bow. To speak "with the neck" rather than "with the mouth" implies the whole body posture has become a form of defiant speech — the person has become their own proclamation of self-sufficiency. FOG renders the raw texture of the Hebrew idiom; FOG Message draws out the upward-thrusting physical imagery against the sky, making the hubris spatially vivid.