Verse 4

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

Referenced Verses

  • Job 29:9 : 9 Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.
  • Job 21:5 : 5 Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
  • Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore do I loathe `it', And I have repented on dust and ashes.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answereth and saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes;
  • Gen 32:10 : 10 I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant -- for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
  • 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?'
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 and say, `O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips `am' I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
  • Dan 9:5 : 5 we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments:
  • Dan 9:7 : 7 `To Thee, O Lord, `is' the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as `at' this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, in all the lands whither Thou hast driven them, in their trespass that they have trespassed against Thee.
  • 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.
  • Hab 2:20 : 20 And Jehovah `is' in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!
  • Zech 2:13 : 13 Hush, all flesh, because of Jehovah, For He hath been roused up from His holy habitation!'
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 And Simon Peter having seen, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, `Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, O lord;'
  • Luke 15:18-19 : 18 having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee, 19 and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.
  • Luke 18:13 : 13 `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!
  • 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 stedfast `is' the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners -- first of whom I am;
  • Ezra 9:15 : 15 `O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteous `art' Thou, for we have been left an escape, as `it is' this day; lo, we `are' before Thee in our guilt, for there is none to stand before Thee concerning this.'
  • Neh 9:33 : 33 and Thou `art' righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly;
  • Job 9:31-35 : 31 Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me. 32 But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment. 33 If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both. 34 He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid, 35 I speak, and do not fear Him, But I am not right with myself.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
  • 2 Sam 24:10 : 10 And the heart of David smiteth him, after that he hath numbered the people, and David saith unto Jehovah, `I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, and now, O Jehovah, cause to pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.'
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I `am' not better than my fathers.'
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done `it'.
  • Ps 51:4-5 : 4 Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging. 5 Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.
  • Job 23:4-7 : 4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments. 5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me. 6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me. 7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
  • Job 31:37 : 37 The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.