Job 29:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:5 : 5 Marke me well and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Beholde, I am vyle, what shall I aunswere thee, therefore I wyll laye my hande vpon my mouth.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 Where much babblyng is, there must needes be offence: and he that refrayneth his lippes, is wyse.
  • 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.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Wherfore my deare brethre, let euery man be swyft to heare, slowe to speake, slowe to wrath.
  • 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 4:2 : 2 If we assay to come with thee, wilt thou be discontent? But who can withhold him selfe from speaking?
  • Job 7:11 : 11 Therfore I wil not spare my mouth, but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde.

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  • Job 29:10-11
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    10The mightie kept still their voyce, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

    11When the eare heard me, it blessed me: & when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me:

  • Job 29:8
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    8The young men saw me and hid them selues, and the aged arose, and stoode vp.

  • Job 29:21-22
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    21Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with scilence they taried for my counsell.

    22After my woordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them.

  • Prov 30:32
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    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.

  • Job 21:5
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    5Marke me well and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth.

  • Job 32:15-16
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    15For they were so abashed, that they coulde not make aunswere, nor speake one worde.

    16When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stoode still and aunswered no more:)

  • Mic 7:16
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    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.

  • Ps 39:1-2
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    1To the chiefe musition Ieduthun, a psalme of Dauid. I sayde to my selfe I wyll take heede to my wayes, that I offende not in my tongue: I wyll kepe my mouth as it were with a brydell, whylest the vngodly is in my syght.

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

  • Prov 17:27-28
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    27A wyse man vseth fewe wordes, and a man of vnderstanding is of a pacient spirite.

    28Yea, a very foole when he holdeth his tongue is counted wise: and he that stoppeth his lippes is esteemed prudent.

  • Jer 38:27
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    27Then came all the princes vnto Ieremie, and asked hym: and he tolde them after the maner as the kyng bad hym. Then they helde their peace, and let hym alone: for they perceaued nothyng.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11A foole vttereth all his mynde at once: but a wyse man kepeth it in tyll afterwarde.

  • Isa 36:21
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    21Unto this Hezekias messengers helde their tongues, and aunswered not one worde: for the kyng had charged them that they should geue him no aunswere.

  • Job 13:5
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    5Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.

  • 2 Kgs 18:36
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    36But the people held their peace, and aunswered not him a word: for the king had commaunded, saying: Aunswere hym not.

  • Ps 39:9
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    9I became dumbe, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doyng.

  • Prov 10:19
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    19Where much babblyng is, there must needes be offence: and he that refrayneth his lippes, is wyse.

  • Prov 17:7
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    7Speache of aucthoritie becommeth not a foole, much lesse a lying mouth then beseemeth a prince.

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    13As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and I was as one that is dumbe who coulde not open his mouth.

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

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?

  • Lam 5:12
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    12The princes are hanged vp with the hand of the enemies, they haue not spared the olde sage men.

  • 1 Cor 14:30
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    30If any reuelation be made to another that sitteth by, let ye first holde his peace.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23Who so kepeth his mouth and his tongue, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.

  • Job 33:31
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    31Marke wel O Iob, and heare me: hold thee still, and I will speake.

  • Eccl 9:17
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    17A wyse mans counsayle that is folowed in scilence, is farre aboue the crying of a captaine among fooles.

  • Hab 2:20
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    20But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth kepe scilence before hym.

  • Ps 119:23
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    23Yea princes dyd syt and speake agaynst me: but thy seruaunt did geue hym selfe to the meditation of thy statutes.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31The mouth of the iust wyll be talking of wisdome: but the tongue of the frowarde shall be cut out.

  • Prov 29:19
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    19A stubbourne seruaunt wyll not be the better for wordes: for though he vnderstande, yet will he not regarde them.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9Tell nothing into the eares of a foole: for he wyll despise the wysdome of thy wordes.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23A discrete man doth hyde knowledge: but the heart of fooles blabbeth out foolishnesse.

  • Ps 135:17
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    17They haue eares and they heare not: yea there is no breath in their mouth.

  • Prov 16:10
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    10When the prophecie is in the lippes of the kyng, his mouth shall not go wrong in iudgement.

  • 1 Sam 25:9
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    9And when Dauids young men came, they told Nabal all those wordes in the name of Dauid: and helde their peace.

  • Ezek 3:26
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    26And I will make thy tongue cleaue to the roofe of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumbe, and not be as a reprouer vnto them: for they are a rebellious house.

  • Dan 10:15
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    15Now whe he had spoken these words vnto me, I cast downe my head to the grounde, and held my tongue.

  • Amos 5:13
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    13Therfore the wise shall kepe scilence in that time: for it is an euyll time.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12The wordes of their lippes be the sinne of their mouth: O let them be taken in their pryde, for they speake nothing but curses and lies.

  • Isa 29:10-11
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    10For the Lorde hath couered you with a slumbring spirite, and hath closed your eyes: your prophetes also and rulers that shoulde see, them hath he couered.

    11And the vision of all the prophetes is become vnto you as the wordes of a booke that is sealed vp, whiche men deliuer to one that is learned, saying, Reade thou in it: and he saith, I can not, for it is sealed.

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    29He layeth his face vpon the earth, if there happen to be any hope.

  • Job 31:27
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    27Hath my heart medled priuyly with any disceite? or did I euer kisse myne owne hande?

  • Ps 141:3
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    3Set a watch O God before my mouth: and kepe the doore of my lippes.