Job 29:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ The princes ceased to speak: and laid the finger on their mouth.

Job 29:9 Cross References

Job 21:5

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

Job 29:21

Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

Job 29:8

The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;

Job 4:2

If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

Job 40:4

Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Job 7:11

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

Proverbs 10:19

In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression: But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.

Proverbs 30:32

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, Lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

James 1:19

Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Judges 18:19

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be priest unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?