Job 21:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 18:19 : 19 and they say to him, `Keep silent, lay thy hand on thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us for a father and for a priest: is it better thy being a priest to the house of one man, or thy being priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?'
  • Job 29:9 : 9 Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it `is'.
  • Mic 7:16 : 16 See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
  • Job 2:12 : 12 and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads -- heavenward.
  • Job 17:8 : 8 Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
  • Job 19:20-21 : 20 To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth. 21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done `it'.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 31 Attend, O Job, hearken to me, Keep silent, and I -- I do speak.

  • 6 Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.

  • 32 If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!

  • 4 Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

  • 16 See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

  • Job 21:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2 Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.

    3 Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.

    4 I -- to man `is' my complaint? and if `so', wherefore May not my temper become short?

  • Job 13:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19 Who `is' he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.

    20 Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.

    21 Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

  • Job 13:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

    14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

  • 9 Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

  • Job 15:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?

    13 For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

  • 27 And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,

  • 5 And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

  • 10 Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

  • Job 13:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

    6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

  • 20 Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.

  • Job 37:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Also, at this my heart trembleth, And it moveth from its place.

    2 Hearken diligently to the trembling of His voice, Yea, the sound from His mouth goeth forth.

  • 5 If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

  • 24 Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.

  • 21 These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

  • 21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

  • 2 I was dumb `with' silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

  • 21 Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

  • 5 Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.

  • 5 Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.

  • 8 Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:

  • 15 `And when he speaketh with me about these things, I have set my face toward the earth, and have been silent;

  • 3 Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

  • 4 `Hear, I pray thee, and I -- I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'

  • 17 I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:

  • 21 To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.

  • 5 If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.

  • 7 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

  • 14 Yea, I am as a man who heareth not, And in his mouth are no reproofs.

  • 3 Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

  • 33 If there are not -- hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I teach thee wisdom.

  • 15 (They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words.

  • 3 Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?

  • 2 Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in the palate.

  • 22 Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, Be not silent, O Lord -- be not far from me,

  • 5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

  • 6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it `is' an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

  • 22 Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.