Job 40:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

(39:37) Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth.

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  • Job 29:9 : 9 The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.
  • Job 21:5 : 5 Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
  • Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 Then Abraham answered and said, Behold nowe, I haue begun to speake vnto my Lord, and I am but dust and ashes.
  • Gen 32:10 : 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and al the trueth, which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant: for with my staffe came I ouer this Iorden, & now haue I gotte two bads.
  • 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?
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 And said, O my God, I am confounded & ashamed, to lift vp mine eyes vnto thee my God: for our iniquities are increased ouer our head, & our trespasse is growen vp vnto the heauen.
  • 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.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I sayd, Wo is me: for I am vndone, because I am a man of polluted lips, & I dwell in the middes of a people of polluted lips: for mine eyes haue seene the King and Lord of hostes.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheepe haue gone astraye: wee haue turned euery one to his owne way, and the Lord hath layed vpon him the iniquitie of vs all.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 But we haue all bene as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnes is as filthie cloutes, and we all doe fade like a leafe, and our iniquities like the winde haue taken vs away.
  • Dan 9:5 : 5 We haue sinned, and haue committed iniquitie and haue done wickedly, yea, we haue rebelled, and haue departed from thy precepts, and from thy iudgements.
  • Dan 9:7 : 7 O Lord, righteousnes belongeth vnto thee, and vnto vs open shame, as appeareth this day vnto euery man of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem: yea, vnto all Israel, both neere and farre off, through all the countreys, whither thou hast driuen them, because of their offences, that they haue committed against thee.
  • Mic 7:16 : 16 The nations shall see, and be confounded for all their power: they shall lay their hande vpon their mouth: their eares shall be deafe.
  • Hab 2:20 : 20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.
  • Zech 2:13 : 13 Let all flesh be still before the Lord: for he is raised vp out of his holy place.
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 Now when Simon Peter saw it, he fel down at Iesus knees, saying, Lord, go from me: for I am a sinfull man.
  • Luke 15:18-19 : 18 I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.
  • Luke 18:13 : 13 But the Publican standing a farre off, woulde not lift vp so much as his eyes to heauen, but smote his brest, saying, O God, be mercifull to me a sinner.
  • 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 This is a true saying, and by all meanes worthy to be receiued, that Christ Iesus came into the worlde to saue sinners, of whom I am chiefe.
  • Ezra 9:15 : 15 O Lord God of Israel, thou art iust, for we haue bene reserued to escape, as appeareth this day: beholde, we are before thee in our trespasse: therfore we canot stand before thee because of it.
  • Neh 9:33 : 33 Surely thou art iust in all that is come vpon vs: for thou hast dealt truly, but we haue done wickedly.
  • Job 9:31-35 : 31 Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shal make me filthie. 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement. 33 Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both. 34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me: 35 Then will I speake, & feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
  • 2 Sam 24:10 : 10 Then Dauids heart smote him, after that he had numbred the people: and Dauid said vnto the Lorde, I haue sinned exceedingly in that I haue done: therefore nowe, Lorde, I beseech thee, take away the trespasse of thy seruant: for I haue done very foolishly.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sate downe vnder a iuniper tree, and desired that he might die, and sayde, It is now ynough: O Lord, take my soule, for I am no better then my fathers.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.
  • Ps 51:4-5 : 4 Against thee, against thee onely haue I sinned, and done euill in thy sight, that thou mayest be iust when thou speakest, and pure when thou iudgest. 5 Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.
  • Job 23:4-7 : 4 I would pleade the cause before him, & fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me. 6 Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me. 7 There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
  • Job 31:37 : 37 I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.

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    1(39:34) Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, & said,

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  • Job 40:5-6
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    5(39:38) Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further.

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  • 6Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.

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  • Job 21:4-5
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  • Job 9:14-15
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    14Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?

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  • Job 42:3-4
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    4Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demaunde of thee, & declare thou vnto me.

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

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

    10Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.

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  • 1Bvt Iob answered, and sayde,

  • 22Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.

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

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    32But if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more.

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    13Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.

    14Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?

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    1Then Iob answered, and sayd,

    2I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?

  • 1Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

  • 20Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.

  • 1Bvt Iob answered, and said,

  • 14Yet hath he not directed his words to me, neyther will I answere him by your wordes.

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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.

  • 32For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

  • 24Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: & cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.

  • 3Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?

  • 1Then Iob answered, and sayde,

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    5For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, & God hath taken away my iudgement.

    6Should I lye in my right? my wound of the arrowe is grieuous without my sinne.

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  • 5I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

  • 16Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.

  • 4For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.

  • 3I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.