Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Bible References
Be astonished
Job 2:12
So when they lift up their eyes afar off, they knew him not. Then they cried, and wept: then every one of them rent his clothes, and sprinkled dust upon their heads in the air.
Job 17:8
Virtuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shall take part against the hypocrite.
Job 19:20
My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth.
Lay your
Job 29:9
when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth;
Job 40:4
"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.
Judges 18:19
And they answered him, "Hold thy peace, and put thine hand upon thy mouth, and come with us, and be unto us a father and a priest. Whether is it better for thee to be a priest? Unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe or a kindred in Israel?"
Psalm 39:9
I became dumb, and opened not my mouth; for it was thy doing.
Proverbs 30:32
If thou be so foolish to magnify thyself, or meddlest with any such thing, then lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
Amos 5:13
Therefore the wise must now be fain to hold his tongue, so wicked a time is it.
Micah 7:16
This shall the Heathen see, and be ashamed for all their power: so that they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, and stop their ears.
Romans 11:33
O the deepness of the abundant wisdom and knowledge of God: how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out.