Job 21:5

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Job 21:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

4 Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

6 When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 2:12

When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

Job 17:8

The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

Job 19:20

My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

Job 29:9

The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

Job 40:4

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

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?”

Psalms 39:9

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

Proverbs 30:32

If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

Amos 5:13

Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

Micah 7:16

Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

Romans 11:33

O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!