Job 21:5

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• Job 29:9
  The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
• Job 40:4
  Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
• Judges 18:19
  And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?“Be quiet,” they told him. “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 for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
• Proverbs 30:32
  If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
• Amos 5:13
  Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
• Job 2:12
  And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
• Job 19:20-21
  ²⁰ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. ²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.²⁰ My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. ²¹ Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
• Micah 7:16
  The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
• Psalm 39:9
  I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
• Job 17:8
  Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

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