Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth;
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Holman Bible
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:9
Verse Info
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;
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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.