Job 40:4
"Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
Cross References
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?"

Job 21:5
Look at me and be astonished; put your hand over your mouth.

Job 29:9
The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

Job 40:3
Then Job answered the LORD:

Proverbs 30:32
If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

Lamentations 3:29
Let him bury his face in the dust--perhaps there is still hope.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold

Job 42:6
Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes."

Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham answered, "Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord--though I am but dust and ashes--

Genesis 32:10
I 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.

2 Samuel 24:10
After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

1 Kings 19:4
while he himself traveled on a day's journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD, " he said. "Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers."

Ezra 9:6, 15
and 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. . . .

Nehemiah 9:33
You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

Psalm 51:4, 5
Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be found just when You speak and blameless when You judge. . . .

Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts."

Isaiah 53:6
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

Daniel 9:5, 7
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances. . . .

Luke 5:8
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees. "Go away from me, Lord, " he said, "for I am a sinful man."

Luke 15:18, 19
I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. . . .

Luke 18:13
But 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 1:15
This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

what

Job 9:31-35
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me! . . .

Job 16:21
Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

Job 23:4-7
I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. . . .

Job 31:37
I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.

I will

Job 21:5
Look at me and be astonished; put your hand over your mouth.

Job 29:9
The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

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?"

Psalm 39:9
I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because it is You who have done it.

Proverbs 30:32
If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

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.

Habakkuk 2:20
But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him."

Zechariah 2:13
Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling."

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