Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Their oath-filled chatter can make your hair stand on end, and their quarrels cause others to shut their ears.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Their cursing and swearing make one’s hair stand on end, and their quarrels make others stop their ears.
Good News Translation®
When such people curse, it is enough to make your hair stand on end, and when they start arguing among themselves, all you can do is to stop up your ears.
Wycliffe Bible
Speech swearing much shall make (for) standing up of hairs, for astoning (or astonishing), to the head; and unreverence thereof is stopping of (the) ears. [The much swearing speech shall set standing of hair, for far, to the head; and irreverence of it in stopping of ears.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The talk of men given to swearing makes one’s hair stand on end, and their quarrels make a man stop his ears.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Their cursing and swearing make one’s hair stand on end, and their quarrels make others stop their ears.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Their cursing and swearing make one’s hair stand on end, and their quarrels make others stop their ears.
Common English Bible © 2011
Their speech, full of profanity, makes a person’s hair stand on end, and their conflicts make people stop up their ears.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Their oath-filled talk makes the hair stand on end, and their brawls make one stop the ears.
Revised Standard Version
The talk of men given to swearing makes one’s hair stand on end, and their quarrels make a man stop his ears.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Their cursing and swearing make one’s hair stand on end, and their quarrels make others stop their ears.