Job 29:10
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 137:6 : 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
- Ezek 3:26 : 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they [are] a rebellious house.
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8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.
9 The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.
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21 Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
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1 ¶ To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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15 ¶ They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, [and] answered no more;)
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26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they [are] a rebellious house.
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18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
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21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
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36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding.
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32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.
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15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
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31 ¶ The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
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9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].
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9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
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13 But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.
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3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?
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27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
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17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any] breath in their mouths.
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5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.
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11 ¶ A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man] keepeth it in till afterwards.
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20 But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
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10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
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23 ¶ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
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19 ¶ In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.
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10 ¶ A divine sentence [is] in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
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11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
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30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
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8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
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30 If [any thing] be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
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1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
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22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
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20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
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3 ¶ In the mouth of the foolish [is] a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.