Job 21:5

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Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 18:19 : 19 They answered him, 'Be quiet! Put your hand over your mouth and come with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Isn’t it better for you to be a priest for a tribe and a clan in Israel rather than for one man's household?'
  • Job 29:9 : 9 Leaders refrained from speaking and laid their hands on their mouths.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Behold, I am insignificant. What can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If you have acted foolishly by exalting yourself, or if you have devised evil, put your hand over your mouth.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore, the prudent person will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
  • Mic 7:16 : 16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and His ways beyond tracing out!
  • Job 2:12 : 12 When they saw him from a distance, they could not recognize him. They raised their voices and wept. Each of them tore his robe and threw dust on their heads skyward as a sign of grief.
  • Job 17:8 : 8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent one is stirred against the godless.
  • Job 19:20-21 : 20 My bones cling to my skin and my flesh, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, my friends, because the hand of God has struck me.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.

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