Job 40:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I place my hand over my mouth.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:32

If you have been foolish by exalting yourself or if you’ve been scheming, put your hand over your mouth.

Job 29:9

City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands.

Job 21:5

Look at me and shudder; put your hand over your mouth.

Job 42:6

Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them; I am dust and ashes.  ,

Luke 18:13

‘But the tax collector, standing far off,   would not even raise his eyes to heaven   but kept striking his chest   and saying, “God, have mercy on me,   , a sinner! ”

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said: Woe is me,  for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Armies.

Ezra 9:6

And I said: My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face towards you, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt is as high as the heavens.

Judges 18:19

They told him, ‘Be quiet. Keep your mouth shut.  , Come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or for you to be a priest for a tribe and family in Israel? ’

Genesis 32:10

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. Indeed, I crossed over the Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered, ‘Since I have ventured to speak to my lord #– #even though I am dust and ashes #– #

1 Timothy 1:15

This saying is trustworthy  and deserving of full acceptance: ‘Christ Jesus came into the world  to save sinners’   #– #and I am the worst of them.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’s knees and said, ‘Go away from me, because I’m a sinful man, Lord! ’

Zechariah 2:13

Let all humanity be silent  before the Lord, for from his holy dwelling he has roused himself.’

Habakkuk 2:20

But the Lord is in his holy temple; let the whole earth be silent in his presence.

Micah 7:16

Nations will see and be ashamed of  all their power. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

Daniel 9:7

Lord, righteousness belongs to you,  but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel #– #those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where you have banished them because of the disloyalty they have shown towards you.

Daniel 9:5

we have sinned,  done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled,  and turned away from your commands and ordinances.

Isaiah 64:6

All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted   garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities  carry us away like the wind.

Isaiah 53:6

We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished him for  the iniquity  of us all.

Job 31:37

I would give him an account of all my steps; I would approach him like a prince.

Job 16:21

I wish that someone might argue for a man with God just as anyone  would for a friend.

Nehemiah 9:33

You are righteous concerning all that has happened to us, because you have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

Ezra 9:15

Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we survive as a remnant  today. Here we are before you with our guilt, though no one can stand in your presence because of this.

1 Kings 19:4

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree  and prayed that he might die. He said, ‘I have had enough! Lord, take my life,  for I’m no better than my ancestors.’

2 Samuel 24:10

David’s conscience troubled him  after he had taken a census of the troops. He said to the Lord, ‘I have sinned greatly in what I’ve done. Now, Lord, because I’ve been very foolish,  please take away your servant’s guilt.’

Job 40:3

Then Job answered the Lord:

Lamentations 3:29

Let him put his mouth in the dust   – perhaps there is still hope.

Leviticus 13:12

But if the skin disease breaks out all over the skin so that it covers all the skin of the stricken person from his head to his feet so far as the priest can see,

Job 37:19

Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.

Ezekiel 16:63

so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed,  and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.” ’