Job 21:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Look at me and be astonished (appalled); and lay your hand upon your mouth.

American Standard Version (1901)

Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.

Common English Bible

Turn to me and be appalled; lay your hand over your mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Listen to me and be astonished, and place a finger over your mouth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Hearken to me, and be astonished: and lay your finger on your mouth.

Job 21:5 Cross References

Job 13:5

If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!

Job 17:8

The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.

Job 2:12

When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.

Job 29:9

the nobles refrained from talking and laid their hands on their mouths;

Job 40:4

“See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Psalm 39:9

I am silent; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.

Proverbs 30:32

If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

Isaiah 52:15

so he shall startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which had not been told them they shall see, and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Judges 18:19

They said to him, “Keep quiet! Put your hand over your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one person or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”