Job 40:4

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Summary

Job 40:4

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Behold

What

I will

General references

Bible References

Behold

Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou have shown to thy servant, for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to LORD, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foo

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my

and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

However thou are just in all that has come upon us, for thou have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,

Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and {may prevail (LXX/NT)} when thou {are criticized (LXX/NT)}.

Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances,

But Simon Peter having seen, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord.

After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight.

But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man.

Faithful is the saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinful men, of whom I am foremost.

What

yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!

I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.

I will

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

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

And they said to him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for thee to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

I was mute. I opened not my mouth, because thou did it.

If thou have done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou have thought evil, [lay] thy hand upon thy mouth.

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might. They shall lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears shall be deaf.

But LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.

Be silent, all flesh, before LORD, for he has arisen out of his holy habitation.

General references

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

But if the bright spot stays in its place, and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

But O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee,

What ye know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

For has any said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more].

I was mute. I opened not my mouth, because thou did it.