Job 40:4

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Summary

Job 40:4

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

Behold

What

I will

General references

Bible References

Behold

Therefore, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes;

I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy slave; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I am become two bands.

And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in having done this; but now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy slave, for I have done very foolishly.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.

and said, O my God, I am confused and ashamed to lift up my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities have multiplied over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto heaven.

Howbeit thou art just in all that has come upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly;

Against thee, against thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou be declared just in thy word and pure in thy judgment.

Then I said, Woe is me! for I am dead because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the hosts.

All we like sheep have become lost; we have turned each one to his own way; and the LORD transposed in him the iniquity of us all.

But we were all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fell as the leaves of a tree; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

we have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and we have been rebels, and we have departed from thy commandments and from thy judgments.

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down on his knees before Jesus, saying, Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.

I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee

And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God, reconcile me, a sinner.

This is a faithful saying and worthy of acceptation by all, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am first.

What

yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

O that a man might dispute with God, as he can with his neighbour!

I would order judgment before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near unto him.

I will

Look upon me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth.

The princes would refrain from talking and lay their hand on their mouth;

And they said unto him, Silence, lay thy hand upon thy mouth and go with us to be our father and 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 of Israel?

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it.

If thou hast fallen, it is because thou hast lifted thyself up; and if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

The Gentiles shall see and be ashamed at all thy mighty acts: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall become deaf.

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD, for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

General references

And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord now be angry if I shall speak; peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it if I find thirty there.

But if the bright spot stays in its place and does not spread, it is the scab of a boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

But oh, that God would speak and open his lips against thee

As you know it, I know it; I am not inferior unto you.

For it is of God to say, I have forgiven, I will no longer destroy.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it.