Job 29:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ the nobles refrained from talking and laid their hands on their mouths;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ The princes refrained from talking and laid their hands on their mouths;

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁹ princes restrained speech, put their hand on their mouth;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ The leaders stopped talking, and they placed a finder over their mouth.

Job 29:9 Cross References

Job 21:5

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

James 1:19

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Proverbs 30:32

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

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech.

Job 40:4

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

Job 7:11

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 4:2

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?

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?”

Job 29:8

the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood;

Job 29:21

“They listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.