Job 40:4

In 11 translations

BSB

“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

KJV

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

WEB

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

ASV

Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

LSV

“Behold, I have been vile, || What do I return to You? I have placed my hand on my mouth.

YLT

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

DBY

Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

DRC39:34

What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

GNV39:37

Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth.

JPS

Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer Thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

LXXE

Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

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WLC

הֵ֣ן קַ֭לֹּתִי מָ֣ה אֲשִׁיבֶ֑ךָּ יָ֝דִ֗י שַׂ֣מְתִּי לְמוֹ־פִֽי׃

LXX-Br

τί ἔτι ἐγὼ κρίνομαι, νουθετούμενος καὶ ἐλέγχων Κύριον, ἀκούων τοιαῦτα οὐθὲν ὤν; ἐγὼ δὲ τίνα ἀπόκρισιν δῶ πρὸς ταῦτα; χεῖρα θήσω ἐπὶ στόματί μου.

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• Proverbs 30:32If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
• Job 29:9The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
• Job 21:5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
• Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
• 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…
• Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.”
• Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
• Luke 18:13But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
• 1 Timothy 1:15This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
• Micah 7:16Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
• Luke 15:18–19I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’
• Psalms 39:9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
• Zechariah 2:13Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”

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