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

  • Job 21:6
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    6Even when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold of my flesh.

  • Prov 30:32
    75%

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

  • Job 40:4
    74%

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

  • Mic 7:16
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    16The 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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    73%

    2Listen carefully to my speech, and let this be your comfort.

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

    4As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • Job 13:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

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

    21Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid.

  • Job 13:13-14
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    72%

    13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let happen to me what will.

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

  • Job 29:9
    72%

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

  • Job 15:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

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

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

  • Job 11:5
    71%

    5Oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

  • Ps 39:10
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    10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

  • Job 13:5-6
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    71%

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

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

  • Job 37:20
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    20Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.

  • Job 37:1-2
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    70%

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

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

  • Job 19:5
    70%

    5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

  • Job 6:24
    70%

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

  • Ps 50:21
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    21These 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.

  • Job 19:21
    70%

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

  • Ps 39:2
    70%

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

  • Jer 5:21
    70%

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

  • Ps 55:5
    70%

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

  • Ps 139:5
    70%

    5You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.

  • Job 33:8
    70%

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

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    15And when he had spoken such words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and became speechless.

  • Job 11:3
    69%

    3Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

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

  • Job 15:17
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    17I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare:

  • Job 29:21
    69%

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

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    5If you can answer me, prepare your words before me, stand up.

  • Prov 5:7
    69%

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

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    69%

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

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    69%

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

  • Job 33:33
    69%

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

  • Job 32:15
    69%

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

  • Job 17:3
    69%

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

  • Job 33:2
    69%

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

  • Ps 35:22
    69%

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

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    5I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

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    69%

    6Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

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    69%

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