Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Turn to me and be appalled, and place [your] hand on [your] mouth.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Holman Bible
put your hand over your mouth.
International Standard Version
Look at me, be appalled, and then shut up!
A Conservative Version
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
American Standard Version
Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.
Amplified
“Look at me and be astonished and appalled;
And put your hand over your mouth.
Bible in Basic English
Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.
Darby Translation
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
Julia Smith Translation
Look to me and be astonished, and put the hand upon the mouth.
King James 2000
Look at me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Modern King James verseion
Turn to me and be amazed, and lay your hand on your mouth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mark me well, and be abashed, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
NET Bible
Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.
New Heart English Bible
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
The Emphasized Bible
Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth!
Webster
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
World English Bible
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
Youngs Literal Translation
Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
4 [As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient? 5 Turn to me and be appalled, and place [your] hand on [your] mouth. 6 And when I think of [it], I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
Cross References
Judges 18:19
And they said to him, "Keep quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be for us a father and a priest. Is it better being a priest for a house of one man or being a priest for a tribe and clan in Israel?"
Job 29:9
Officials refrained from talking, and they laid [their] hand on their mouth.
Job 40:4
"Look, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Job 2:12
Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.
Job 17:8
[The] upright are appalled at this, and [the] innocent excites himself over [the] godless.
Job 19:20-21
My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Psalm 39:9
I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done [it].
Proverbs 30:32
If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, [put your] hand to [your] mouth.
Amos 5:13
Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it [is] a time of evil.
Micah 7:16
The nations will see and be ashamed because of all their might. They will lay [the] hand on [the] mouth; their ears will be deaf.
Romans 11:33
Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable [are] his judgments and [how] incomprehensible [are] his ways!