Job’s Former Blessings
Job 29:9
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
- KJV
- The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
- WEB
- The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
- ASV
- The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
- LSV
- Princes have kept in words, || And they place a hand on their mouth.
- YLT
- Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.
- DBY
- Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
- DRC
- The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
- GNV
- The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.
- JPS
- The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;
- LXXE
- And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- שָׂ֭רִים עָצְר֣וּ בְמִלִּ֑ים וְ֝כַ֗ף יָשִׂ֥ימוּ לְפִיהֶֽם׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἁδροὶ δὲ ἐπαύσαντο λαλοῦντες, δάκτυλον ἐπιθέντες ἐπὶ στόματι.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 21:5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
- Job 40:4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
- Proverbs 10:19When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
- James 1:19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
- Proverbs 30:32If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
- Job 4:2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
- 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…
- Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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