Job 40:4

New King James Version

“Behold, I am vile; What shall I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:32

If you have been foolish in exalting yourself, Or if you have devised evil, put your hand on your mouth.

Job 29:9

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

Job 21:5

Look at me and be astonished; Put your hand over your mouth.

Job 42:6

Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.”

Luke 18:13

And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’

Isaiah 6:5

So I said: “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 my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.”

Ezra 9:6

And I said: “O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

Judges 18:19

And they said to him, “Be quiet, put your hand over your mouth, and come with us; be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest to the household of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

Genesis 32:10

I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies.

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:

1 Timothy 1:15

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused from His holy habitation!”

Habakkuk 2:20

“But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”

Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; They shall put their hand over their mouth; Their ears shall be deaf.

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

Daniel 9:5

we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.

Isaiah 64:6

But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Psalm 39:9

I was mute, I did not open my mouth, Because it was You who did it.

Job 31:37

I would declare to Him the number of my steps; Like a prince I would approach Him.

Job 16:21

Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!

Nehemiah 9:33

However You are just in all that has befallen us; For You have dealt faithfully, But we have done wickedly.

Ezra 9:15

O Lord God of Israel, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. Here we are before You, in our guilt, though no one can stand before You because of this!”

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

2 Samuel 24:10

And David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

Job 40:3

Then Job answered the Lord and said:

Lamentations 3:29

Let him put his mouth in the dust— There may yet be hope.

Leviticus 13:12

“And if leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the sore, from his head to his foot, wherever the priest looks,

Job 37:19

“Teach us what we should say to Him, For we can prepare nothing because of the darkness.

Ezekiel 16:63

that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,” says the Lord God.’ ”