Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Turn to me and be appalled, and place [your] hand on [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.
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 to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient? 5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. 6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
Cross References
Judges 18:19
They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"
Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 40:4
"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Job 2:12
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Job 19:20-21
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Psalm 39:9
I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.
Proverbs 30:32
"If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Micah 7:16
The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
Romans 11:33
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!