Job 21:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 18:19 : 19 They said to him, Hold your peace, lay 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 29:9 : 9 The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
  • Job 40:4 : 4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
  • 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.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; For it is an evil time.
  • Mic 7:16 : 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.
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
  • Job 2:12 : 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
  • Job 17:8 : 8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
  • Job 19:20-21 : 20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. 21 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, Because you did it.

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  • Job 13:19-21
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  • Job 13:13-14
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    13"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

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    9The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

  • Job 15:12-13
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    27And my heart has been secretly enticed, My hand threw a kiss from my mouth:

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    10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

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

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    21"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

  • Ps 39:2
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    2I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

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    21Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

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

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