Job 29:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 21:5 : 5 Look at me and be astonished, and place your hand over your mouth.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the multitude of words, there is no lack of sin, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:
  • 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 4:2 : 2 If we attempt to speak with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
  • Job 7:11 : 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 29:10-11
    2 verses
    89%

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

    11 When the ear heard me, it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it approved me;

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

  • Job 29:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

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

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

  • Job 32:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • 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.

  • Ps 39:1-2
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    72%

    1 I 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.

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

  • 71%

    27 He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.

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

  • 27 Then 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 19 In the multitude of words, there is no lack of sin, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

  • 7 Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, much less lying lips for a prince.

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    68%

    13 But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

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

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

  • 12 Princes were hung up by their hands; the faces of elders were not honored.

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

  • 23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

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

  • 17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.

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

  • 23 Princes also sit and speak against me, but Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

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

  • 19 A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understands, he will not respond.

  • 9 Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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

  • 23 A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

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

  • 10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth does not transgress in judgment.

  • 9 And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and then they stopped.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Isa 29:10-11
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    10 For 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.

    11 And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, please: and he says, I cannot, for it is sealed.

  • 29 He puts his mouth in the dust, there may yet be hope.

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

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