Job 40:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.”
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““Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 40:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
- Genesis 32:10I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
- Leviticus 13:12But if the skin disease breaks out all over his skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,
- Judges 18:19“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?”
- 2 Samuel 24:10After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
- 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
- Ezra 9:15O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”
- Nehemiah 9:33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
- Job 9:31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
- Job 16:21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
- Job 21:5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
- Job 23:4I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
- Job 29:9The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
- Job 31:37I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—
- Job 37:19Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
- Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
- Psalms 39:9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
- Psalms 51:4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
- Proverbs 30:32If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
- Isaiah 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
- Isaiah 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- Isaiah 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- Ezekiel 16:63so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”
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