Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth;

New American Standard Bible

“The princes stopped talking
And put their hands on their mouths;

King James Version

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Holman Bible

City officials stopped talking
and covered their mouths with their hands.

International Standard Version

Nobles would refrain from speaking, covering their mouths with their hands.

A Conservative Version

The rulers refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

American Standard Version

The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

Amplified


The princes stopped talking
And put their hands on their mouths;

Bible in Basic English

The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

Darby Translation

Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

Julia Smith Translation

Chiefs held back in words, and they will put the hand to the mouth.

King James 2000

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Officials refrained from talking, and they laid [their] hand on their mouth.

Modern King James verseion

The rulers held back from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

NET Bible

the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;

New Heart English Bible

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

The Emphasized Bible

Rulers, restrained speech, and, a hand, laid they on their mouth;

Webster

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

World English Bible

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Youngs Literal Translation

Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עצר 
`atsar 
Usage: 46

מלּה מלּה 
Millah 
Usage: 38

and laid
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

כּף 
Kaph 
Usage: 192

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense

8 When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me; 9 when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth; 10 when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths;

Cross References

Job 21:5

Mark me well, and be abashed, and lay your hand upon your 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?"

Job 4:2

"If we begin to commune with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent; but who can withhold himself from speaking?

Job 7:11

Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit; in that bitterness of my mind will I talk.

Job 40:4

"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.

Proverbs 10:19

Where much babbling is, there must needs be offense; he that refraineth his lips is wisest of all.

Proverbs 30:32

If thou be so foolish to magnify thyself, or meddlest with any such thing, then lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

James 1:19

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

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