34 Bible Verses about Curbing Speech

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Job 13:13

Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

Job 33:31

Attend, O Job, hearken to me, Keep silent, and I -- I do speak.

Job 33:33

If there are not -- hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I teach thee wisdom.

Job 21:5

Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.

Isaiah 23:2

Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle, Trader of Zidon, passing the sea, they filled thee.

Isaiah 47:5

Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, 'Mistress of kingdoms.'

Psalm 31:17

O Jehovah, let me not be ashamed, For I have called Thee, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol.

Psalm 31:18

Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.

Zephaniah 1:7

Hush! because of the Lord Jehovah, For near is a day of Jehovah, For prepared hath Jehovah a sacrifice, He hath sanctified His invited ones.

Deuteronomy 27:9

And Moses speaketh -- the priests, the Levites, also -- unto all Israel, saying, 'Keep silent, and hear, O Israel, this day thou hast become a people to Jehovah thy God;

Judges 3:19

and he himself hath turned back from the graven images which are at Gilgal, and saith, 'A secret word I have unto thee, O king;' and he saith, 'Hush!' and go out from him do all those standing by him.

Judges 18:19

and they say to him, 'Keep silent, lay thy hand on thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us for a father and for a priest: is it better thy being a priest to the house of one man, or thy being priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?'

Amos 6:10

And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who is in the sides of the house, 'Is there yet with thee?' And he said, 'None,' then he said, 'Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'

Amos 8:3

And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many are the carcases, into any place throw -- hush!

Zechariah 2:13

Hush, all flesh, because of Jehovah, For He hath been roused up from His holy habitation!'

Joshua 6:10

and the people hath Joshua commanded, saying, 'Ye do not shout, nor cause your voice to be heard, nor doth there go out from your mouth a word, till the day of my saying unto you, Shout ye -- then ye have shouted.'

Judges 18:25

And the sons of Dan say unto him, 'Let not thy voice be heard with us, lest men bitter in soul fall upon you, and thou hast gathered thy life, and the life of thy household;'

Job 15:13

For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

Romans 15:18

for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

1 Corinthians 14:28

and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

1 Corinthians 14:30

and if to another sitting anything may be revealed, let the first be silent;

Job 6:24

Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.

Job 40:4

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Exodus 23:13

and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not mention; it is not heard on thy mouth.

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