Job 21:5

Job chapter 21 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

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World English Bible · 2000

Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.

King James Version · 1611

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

American Standard Version · 1901

Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.

v.4As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

v.5This passage

v.6Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
Micah 7:16
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.
Judges 18:19
And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be priest unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?