Job 21:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Look at me and be astonished, and place your hand over your mouth.

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  • Judg 18:19 : 19 And they said to him, Hold your peace, put your hand over your mouth and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man or to be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?
  • Job 29:9 : 9 The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
  • Mic 7:16 : 16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
  • Job 2:12 : 12 And when they lifted up their eyes from afar and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voices and wept; and they tore every one his mantle and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
  • Job 17:8 : 8 Upright men shall be appalled at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
  • Job 19:20-21 : 20 My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was silent, and did not open my mouth, because you did it.

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    31 Mark well, O Job, listen to me: hold your peace, and I will speak.

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    32 If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.

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    4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

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    16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

  • Job 21:2-4
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    2 Listen carefully to my speech, and let this be your comfort.

    3 Allow me to speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

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  • Job 13:19-21
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    19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

    20 Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from you.

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  • Job 13:13-14
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    13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let happen to me what will.

    14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

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    9 The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths.

  • Job 15:12-13
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    12 Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

    13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Job 31:27
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    27 And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

  • Job 11:5
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    5 Oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

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    10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

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    5 Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom.

    6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

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    20 Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.

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    1 At this also my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.

    2 Listen attentively to the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.

  • Job 19:5
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    5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

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    24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

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    21 These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.

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    21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

  • Ps 39:2
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    2 I was silent and still, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:

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    5 Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

  • Ps 139:5
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    5 You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.

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    8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

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    4 Listen, I beseech You, and I will speak: I will question You, and You declare to me.

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    17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare:

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    21 Men listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

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    7 Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

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    14 Thus I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no responses.

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    3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

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    33 If not, listen to me: hold your peace, and I shall teach you wisdom.

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    15 They were amazed; they answered no more; they stopped speaking.

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    3 Put down now, give me a pledge with You; who is he that will strike hands with me?

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    2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth; my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

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    22 This you have seen, O LORD; keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me.

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    22 Receive, I pray you, the law from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.