Job 21:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 40:4

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

Job 29:9

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

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?”

Proverbs 30:32

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

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Psalm 39:9

I am silent; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.

Job 17:8

The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.

Job 2:12

When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.

Job 13:5

If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!

Isaiah 52:15

so he shall startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which had not been told them they shall see, and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.