Job 29:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:5 : 5 Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 (39:37) Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If thou hast bene foolish in lifting thy selfe vp, and if thou hast thought wickedly, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Wherefore my deare brethren, let euery man be swift to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.
  • Judg 18:19 : 19 And they answered him, Holde thy peace: lay thine hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs to be our father and Priest. Whether is it better that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto ye house of one man, or that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto a tribe and to a familie in Israel?
  • Job 4:2 : 2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?
  • Job 7:11 : 11 Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my minde.

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  • Job 29:10-11
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    10The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

    11And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.

  • Job 29:8
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    8The yong men saw me, & hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.

  • Job 29:21-22
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    21Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell.

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

  • Prov 30:32
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    32If thou hast bene foolish in lifting thy selfe vp, and if thou hast thought wickedly, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.

  • Job 21:5
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    5Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.

  • Job 32:15-16
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    15Then they fearing, answered no more, but left off their talke.

    16When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stood still and answered no more)

  • Mic 7:16
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    16The nations shall see, and be confounded for all their power: they shall lay their hande vpon their mouth: their eares shall be deafe.

  • Ps 39:1-2
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    1To the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme of Dauid. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.

    2I was dumme & spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.

  • Prov 17:27-28
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    27Hee that hath knowledge, spareth his wordes, and a man of vnderstanding is of an excellent spirit.

    28Euen a foole (when he holdeth his peace) is counted wise, and hee that stoppeth his lips, prudent.

  • Jer 38:27
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    27Then came all the princes vnto Ieremiah and asked him; he tolde them according to all these wordes that the King had commaunded: so they left off speaking with him, for the matter was not perceiued.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11A foole powreth out all his minde: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterward.

  • Isa 36:21
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    21Then they kept silence, and answered him not a worde: for the Kings commandement was, saying, Answere him not.

  • Job 13:5
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    5Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

  • 2 Kgs 18:36
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    36But the people helde their peace, and answered not him a worde: for the Kings commandement was, saying, Answere ye him not.

  • Ps 39:9
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    9I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.

  • Prov 10:19
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    19In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

  • Prov 17:7
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    7Hie talke becommeth not a foole, much lesse a lying talke a prince.

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    13But I as a deafe man heard not, and am as a dumme man, which openeth not his mouth.

    14Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?

  • Lam 5:12
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    12The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.

  • 1 Cor 14:30
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    30And if any thing be reueiled to another that sitteth by, let the first holde his peace.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from afflictions.

  • Job 33:31
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    31Marke well, O Iob, and heare me: keepe silence, and I will speake.

  • Eccl 9:17
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    17The wordes of the wise are more heard in quietnes, then the crye of him that ruleth among fooles.

  • Hab 2:20
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    20But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.

  • Ps 119:23
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    23Princes also did sit, and speake against me: but thy seruant did meditate in thy statutes.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

  • Prov 29:19
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    19A seruant will not be chastised with words: though he vnderstand, yet he will not answere.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23A wise man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of the fooles publisheth foolishnes.

  • Ps 135:17
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    17They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth.

  • Prov 16:10
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    10A diuine sentence shalbe in the lips of the King: his mouth shall not trasgresse in iudgement.

  • 1 Sam 25:9
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    9And when Dauids yong men came, they tolde 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 dume, and shalt not be to them as a man that rebuketh: for they are a rebellious house.

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    15And when he spake these wordes vnto me, I set my face towarde the grounde, and helde my tongue.

  • Amos 5:13
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    13Therefore the prudent shal keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill time.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.

  • Isa 29:10-11
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    10For the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber, and hath shut vp your eyes: the Prophets, & your chiefe Seers hath he couered.

    11And the vision of them all is become vnto you, as the wordes of a booke that is sealed vp, which they deliuer to one that can reade, saying, Reade this, I pray thee. Then shall he say, I can not: for it is sealed.

  • Lam 3:29
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    29He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.

  • Job 31:27
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    27If mine heart did flatter me in secrete, or if my mouth did kisse mine hand,

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    3Set a watch, O Lorde, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.