Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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Job 29:7
when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 29:8
The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 29:10
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Job 29:11
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
Job 29:17
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Job 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
Job 29:19
My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
Job 29:20
My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
Job 30:1
“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
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Job 21:5
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
Job 40:4
“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Judges 18:19
They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
Proverbs 30:32
“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
Micah 7:16
The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
Psalms 39:9
I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
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Job 29:21
“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
Job 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
Job 29:24
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
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Isaiah 52:15
so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.
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Zechariah 2:13
Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
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Job 4:2
“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
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Job 29:6
when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
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Habakkuk 2:20
But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
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