Job 21:5 · KJV
“Mark me, and be astonished, and lay {your} hand upon {your} mouth. {Mark...: Heb. Look unto me}”
— Job 21:5
As for me, {is} my complaint to man? and if {it were so}, why should not my spirit be troubled? {troubled: Heb. shortened?}
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Job 21 — Context
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
4As for me, {is} my complaint to man? and if {it were so}, why should not my spirit be troubled? {troubled: Heb. shortened?}
5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay {your} hand upon {your} mouth. {Mark...: Heb. Look unto me}
6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Cross References
Job 29:9
The princes refrained talking, and laid {their} hand on their mouth.
Judges 18:19
And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: {is it} better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Proverbs 30:32
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, {lay} thine hand upon thy mouth.
Psalms 39:9
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst {it}.
Amos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it {is} an evil time.
Micah 7:16
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay {their} hand upon {their} mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable {are} his judgments, and his ways past finding out!