Job 29:9

World English Bible (2000)

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:5 : 5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
  • Judg 18:19 : 19 They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"
  • Job 4:2 : 2 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
  • Job 7:11 : 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. 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 voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

    11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

  • 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

  • Job 29:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

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

    22 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them.

  • 32 "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

  • 5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

  • Job 32:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a word to say.

    16 Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

  • 16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

  • Ps 39:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

    2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

  • 71%

    27 He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

    28 Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

  • 27 Then came all the princes to 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.

  • 11 A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

  • 21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."

  • 5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

  • 18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

  • 36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."

  • 9 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.

  • 19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

  • 7 Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

  • Ps 38:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

    14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

  • 7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

  • 12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

  • 30 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.

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

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

  • 17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

  • 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"

  • 23 Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

  • 31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

  • 19 A servant can't be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

  • 9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • 23 A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

  • 17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • 10 Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

  • 9 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

  • 26 and I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, 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 to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.

  • 13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Isa 29:10-11
    2 verses
    66%

    10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

    11 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:"

  • 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

  • 27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

  • 3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.