Job 40:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Behold, I am of small account and vile! What shall I answer You? I lay my hand upon my mouth. [Ezra 9:6; Ps. 51:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

Common English Bible

⁴ Look, I’m of little worth. What can I answer you? I’ll put my hand over my mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And do you have an arm like God, or a voice like thunder?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Job 40:4 Cross References

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

Genesis 32:10

I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies.

2 Samuel 24:10

And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Ezra 9:15

O LORD, the God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness; for none can stand before thee because of this.

Ezra 9:6

and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:33

Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly:

Job 16:21

That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbour!

Job 21:5

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

Job 29:9

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

Job 31:37

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.

Job 37:19

Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Job 40:3

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

Job 42:6

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent In dust and ashes.

Psalm 39:9

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

Proverbs 30:32

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

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 6:5

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 64:6

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Lamentations 3:29

Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may he hope.

Ezekiel 16:63

that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame; when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

Daniel 9:5

we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thy judgements:

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

Leviticus 13:12

And if the leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his feet, as far as appeareth to the priest;

Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

Habakkuk 2:20

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD: for he is waked up out of his holy habitation.

Luke 18:13

But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me a sinner.

Luke 5:8

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

1 Timothy 1:15

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:

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?