Job 21:5

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

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  • 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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  • 31 Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

  • 6 When I remember, I am dismayed, and trembling seizes my body.

  • 32 If you have acted foolishly by exalting yourself, or if you have devised evil, put your hand over your mouth.

  • 4 Behold, I am insignificant. What can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

  • 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.

  • Job 21:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2 Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

    3 Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, you may mock.

    4 Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • Job 13:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19 Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

    20 Only grant me these two things, so that I will not hide myself from You:

    21 Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.

  • Job 13:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!

    14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

  • 9 Leaders refrained from speaking and laid their hands on their mouths.

  • Job 15:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash?

    13 That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

  • 27 and my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand offered them a kiss in worship,

  • 5 But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

  • 10 I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

  • Job 13:5-6
    2 verses
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    5 If only you would keep silent, it would be wisdom for you.

    6 Listen now to my argument and pay attention to the contentions of my lips.

  • 20 Should it be told to Him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

  • Job 37:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Indeed, my heart trembles at this and leaps from its place.

    2 Listen closely to the rumbling of His voice and the sound that comes from His mouth.

  • 5 If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

  • 24 Teach me, and I will be silent; help me understand where I have gone astray.

  • 21 These things you have done, and I kept silent; you thought I was like you. But I will rebuke you and lay the case before your eyes.

  • 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, my friends, because the hand of God has struck me.

  • 2 I said, 'I will guard my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are in my presence.'

  • 21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

  • 5 My heart trembles within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

  • 5 You hem me in behind and before, and You lay Your hand upon me.

  • 8 Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your words.

  • 15 While he was speaking to me with these words, I bowed my face to the ground and became speechless.

  • 3 Will your empty talk silence others? Will you mock without anyone to rebuke you?

  • 4 You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.'

  • 17 I will show you; listen to me, and let me declare what I have seen:

  • 21 People listened to me and waited, and they kept silent for my counsel.

  • 5 If you can, answer me; prepare yourself before me and take your stand.

  • 7 Now, my children, listen to me, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

  • 14 But I am like a deaf man who does not hear, and like a mute man who cannot open his mouth.

  • 3 Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.

  • 33 But if not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.

  • 15 They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have left them.

  • 3 Put me in your pledge, O God; who else will strike hands with me in agreement?

  • 2 Look, I have opened my mouth; my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

  • 22 You have seen it, Lord; do not be silent. Lord, do not be far from me.

  • 5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

  • 6 Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore, fear God.

  • 22 Accept instruction from His mouth and place His words in your heart.