Job 21:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Marke me well and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth.

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  • Judg 18:19 : 19 They aunswered hym: Holde thy peace, lay thine hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs, to be our father and priest: Is it better for thee to be a priest vnto the house of one man, then to be a priest vnto a tribe or kynred in Israel?
  • Job 29:9 : 9 The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth:
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Beholde, I am vyle, what shall I aunswere thee, therefore I wyll laye my hande vpon my mouth.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If thou hast done foolishly when thou wast in hye estate, or yf thou hast taken euyll counsayle, then lay thine hande vpon thy mouth.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therfore the wise shall kepe scilence in that time: for it is an euyll time.
  • Mic 7:16 : 16 This shall the heathen see, and be ashamed for all their power: so that they shall lay their hande vpon their mouth, and stoppe their eares.
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O the deepenesse of the ryches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God, howe vnsearcheable are his iudgementes, and his wayes past fyndyng out?
  • Job 2:12 : 12 So when they lift vp their eyes a farre of, they knew him not: then they cryed and wept, and euery one of them rent his clothes, and sprinckled dust vpon their heades in the ayre.
  • Job 17:8 : 8 Vertuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shal take part against the hypocrite.
  • Job 19:20-21 : 20 My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my fleshe, onely there is left me the skinne about my teeth. 21 Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I became dumbe, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doyng.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 31Marke wel O Iob, and heare me: hold thee still, and I will speake.

  • 6For when I consider my selfe I am afrayde, and my fleshe is smitten with feare.

  • 32If thou hast done foolishly when thou wast in hye estate, or yf thou hast taken euyll counsayle, then lay thine hande vpon thy mouth.

  • 4Beholde, I am vyle, what shall I aunswere thee, therefore I wyll laye my hande vpon my mouth.

  • 16This shall the heathen see, and be ashamed for all their power: so that they shall lay their hande vpon their mouth, and stoppe their eares.

  • Job 21:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations,

    3Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on.

    4Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?

  • Job 13:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye.

    20Neuerthelesse, graunt me two thinges, and then wyll I not hide my selfe from thee:

    21Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde.

  • Job 13:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.

    14Wherefore do I beare my fleshe in my teeth, and put my soule in myne handes?

  • 9The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth:

  • Job 15:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12Why doth thyne heart so bewitche thee? And wherefore winckest thou with thyne eyes,

    13That thy minde is so pufte vp against God, and lettest such wordes go out of thy mouth?

  • 27Hath my heart medled priuyly with any disceite? or did I euer kisse myne owne hande?

  • 5But O that God woulde speake, and open his lippes against thee:

  • 10Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande.

  • Job 13:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men.

    6Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes.

  • 20Shall it be tolde him what I saye? Shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?

  • Job 37:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1At this also my heart is astonied, and moued out of his place.

    2Heare then the sounde of his voyce, & the noyse that goeth out of his mouth.

  • 5But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:

  • 24Teache me, and I will hold my tong: and wherin I haue erred; cause me to vnderstande.

  • 21These thynges hast thou done and I helde my tongue, thou thoughtest that I am euen such a one as thou thy selfe art: but I wyll reproue thee, and I wyll set foorth in order before thine eyes all that thou hast done.

  • 21Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.

  • 2I became dumbe through scilence, I helde my peace from speakyng of good wordes: but the more was my sorowe increased.

  • 21Heare this thou foolishe and vndiscreete people, ye haue eyes but ye see not, eares haue ye but ye heare not.

  • 5Fearefulnes and trembling are come vpon me: and an horrible dread hath ouerwhelmed me.

  • 5Thou hast fashioned me behinde and before: and layde thyne hande vpon me.

  • 8Now hast thou spoken in myne eares, & I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes:

  • 15Now whe he had spoken these words vnto me, I cast downe my head to the grounde, and held my tongue.

  • 3Shoulde thy lies make men holde their peace, and when thou mockest others shall no man make thee ashamed?

  • 4O hearken thou vnto me also, and let me speake: aunswere vnto the thing that I wyll aske thee.

  • 17I will tel thee, heare me, and I will shewe thee that I haue seene:

  • 21Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with scilence they taried for my counsell.

  • 5If thou canst then geue me aunswere, prepare thy selfe and stande before me face to face.

  • 7Heare me nowe therefore O ye chyldren, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

  • 14I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth.

  • 3Set a watch O God before my mouth: and kepe the doore of my lippes.

  • 33If thou hast nothing, then heare me, and hold thy tongue, and I shall teache thee wysdome.

  • 15For they were so abashed, that they coulde not make aunswere, nor speake one worde.

  • 3O deliuer me, and loke out one to be my suretie in thy sight: what is he that knoweth who wyll promise for me?

  • 2Behold, I haue now opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my throte.

  • 22Thou hast seene this O God, holde not thy tongue then: go not farre from me O Lorde.

  • 5I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me.

  • 6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy fleshe for to sinne, neither say thou before the angell that it is thy ignoraunce: for then God wyll be angry at thy voyce, and destroy all the worke of thyne handes.

  • 22Receaue I pray thee the lawe at his mouth, and lay vp his wordes in thyne heart.