Job 21:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Job 13:5

Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!

Job 17:8

Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

Job 2:12

And when they saw him from afar, they did not recognize him; and they raised their voices and wept; and they rent their robes and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Job 29:9

the princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;

Job 40:4

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

Psalm 39:9

I am dumb, I do not open my mouth; for it is thou who hast done it.

Proverbs 30:32

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

Isaiah 52:15

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

Amos 5:13

Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time.

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;

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!

Judges 18:19

And they said to him, “Keep quiet, put your hand upon 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 man, or to be priest to a tribe and family in Israel?”