Job 29:9

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:5 : 5 Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Behold, I am insignificant. What can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but the one who restrains his lips is wise.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If you have acted foolishly by exalting yourself, or if you have devised evil, put your hand over your mouth.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 My beloved brothers and sisters, let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
  • 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 4:2 : 2 If someone attempts to speak with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
  • Job 7:11 : 11 Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 29:10-11
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    10The voices of nobles quieted, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

    11For when the ear heard me, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw me, it gave testimony about me.

  • Job 29:8
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    8the young men saw me and stepped aside, and the aged stood and rose to their feet.

  • Job 29:21-22
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    21People listened to me and waited, and they kept silent for my counsel.

    22After I spoke, they did not speak again, and my words fell gently upon them.

  • Prov 30:32
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    32If you have acted foolishly by exalting yourself, or if you have devised evil, put your hand over your mouth.

  • Job 21:5
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    5Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.

  • Job 32:15-16
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    72%

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

    16Should I wait, now that they are not speaking and they stand there without replying any longer?

  • Mic 7:16
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    16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

  • Ps 39:1-2
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    1For the director of music, for Jeduthun, a psalm of David.

    2I 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.'

  • Prov 17:27-28
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    27The one who holds back his words has knowledge, and the one who is calm in spirit is a person of understanding.

    28Even a fool is considered wise if they keep silent, and discerning when they shut their lips.

  • Jer 38:27
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    27All the officials did come to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had heard the conversation.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man calmly holds it back.

  • Isa 36:21
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    21But the people remained silent and did not answer him a word, because the king had commanded, 'Do not answer him.'

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

  • Ps 31:18
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    18O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I have called out to you. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silent in the grave.

  • 2 Kgs 18:36
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    36But the people remained silent and did not answer him a word, because the king had commanded, ‘Do not answer him.’

  • Ps 39:9
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    9Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.

  • Prov 10:19
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    19When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but the one who restrains his lips is wise.

  • Prov 17:7
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    7Eloquent speech is not fitting for a fool; how much less deceitful speech for a ruler!

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    13Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to harm me speak of ruin and plot deception all day long.

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

  • Ps 59:7
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    7They return in the evening, snarling like dogs as they prowl the city.

  • Lam 5:12
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    12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.

  • 1 Cor 14:30
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    30If something is revealed to another sitting there, the first speaker should stop.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23Whoever guards their mouth and tongue keeps themselves from troubles.

  • Job 33:31
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    31Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

  • Eccl 9:17
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    17The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler among fools.

  • Hab 2:20
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    20But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

  • Ps 119:23
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    23Though rulers sit and speak against me, Your servant will meditate on Your statutes.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut off.

  • Prov 29:19
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    19A servant cannot be corrected by mere words; even if he understands, he will not respond.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the insight of your words.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23A prudent person conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

  • Ps 135:17
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    17They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths.

  • Prov 16:10
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    10A decision is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not betray justice.

  • 1 Sam 25:9
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    9When David’s young men arrived, they delivered this message to Nabal in David’s name and waited.

  • Ezek 3:26
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    26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.

  • Dan 10:15
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    15While he was speaking to me with these words, I bowed my face to the ground and became speechless.

  • Amos 5:13
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    13Therefore, the prudent person will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12Do not kill them, Lord, or my people will forget. Scatter them by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

  • Isa 29:10-11
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    10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes—the prophets; He has covered your heads—the seers.

    11The entire vision is to you like the words of a sealed book. If it is given to one who can read and they are told, 'Read this, please,' they respond, 'I cannot, for it is sealed.'

  • Lam 3:29
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    29Let him put his mouth in the dust—there may yet be hope.

  • Job 31:27
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    27and my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand offered them a kiss in worship,

  • Ps 141:3
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    3Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.