Psalms 75:5

speaknot with a stiff neck Better, as R.V. marg., Speak not insolently with ahaughty neck. Cp. 1 Samuel 2:3; and for neck= haughty neck, see Job 15:26. Notshould not have been italicised in A.V. A single negative governs both clauses in the Heb. though our idiom requires its repetition. There is an interesting various reading in the LXX, "Speak not unrighteousness against God." They read in their text the word for Rock, which differs by only one consonant from the word for neck(צואר צור); and it is noteworthy that this title of God occurs in Isaiah 30:29. Cp. Habakkuk 1:12.