Job 29:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

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  • Ps 137:6 : 6 If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth; if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
  • Ezek 3:26 : 26 And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

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    8The young men saw me and hid themselves; even the aged arose and stood.

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

  • Job 29:21-22
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    75%

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

    22After my words they spoke not again; and my speech fell gently upon them.

  • Ps 39:1-2
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    1I said, I will be careful of my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

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

  • Job 32:15-16
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    15They were amazed; they answered no more; they stopped speaking.

    16When I had waited, for they did not speak but stood still and answered no more,

  • Ezek 3:26
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    26And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

  • Ps 31:18
    72%

    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • Isa 36:21
    72%

    21But they held their peace and answered him not a word, for the king's order was, Do not answer him.

  • Job 13:5
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    5Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom.

  • 2 Kgs 18:36
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    36But the people kept silent and did not answer him a word, for the king's command was, Do not answer him.

  • Prov 17:28
    71%

    28Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise; and he who shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

  • Prov 30:32
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    32If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.

  • Mic 7:16
    71%

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

  • Dan 10:15
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    15And when he had spoken such words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and became speechless.

  • Prov 10:31
    70%

    31The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

  • Ps 39:9
    69%

    9I was silent, and did not open my mouth, because you did it.

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

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    13But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

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

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    3When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?

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    27Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

  • Ps 135:17
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    17They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • Job 21:5
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    5Look at me and be astonished, and place your hand over your mouth.

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    11A fool utters all his mind; but a wise man keeps it in till afterward.

  • Hab 2:20
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    20But the LORD is in His holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him.

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    10They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.

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    13Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks what is right.

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

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    13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

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    4The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

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    10For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has He covered.

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    9As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

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    8Speak for those who cannot speak, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

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    67%

    30If anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.

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    1Do not remain silent, O God of my praise;

  • Ezek 33:22
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    22Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, before the one who had escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

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    66%

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

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    3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.