Job 29:9

The Scriptures 1998

rulers held back their words, and laid a hand on their mouth;

Cross References

Job 21:5

Look at me and be appalled, then put your hand on your mouth.

Job 29:21

To me they listened, and they waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

Job 29:8

the young men saw me and hid, and the aged rose up, they stood;

Job 4:2

“If one tries a word with you, would you become impatient? But who is able to withhold himself from speaking?

Job 40:4

“See, I am insignificant, what would I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.

Job 7:11

I also, I do not hold my mouth, I speak in the distress of my spirit, I complain in the bitterness of my being.

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, Transgression is not absent, But he who restrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 30:32

If you have been foolish in lifting up yourself, Or if you have plotted evil, Put your hand on your mouth.

James 1:19

So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,

Judges 18:19

And they said to him, “Be silent, put your hand over your mouth, and come with us, and 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 clan in Yisra’ĕ