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

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Bible References

Behold

Wherefore I abhor myself , And repent in dust and ashes.

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

I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies.

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

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 Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

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 is grown up unto the heavens.

Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

Then said I, 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 mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do 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, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:

What

Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine 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 cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.

I will

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

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

And they said unto 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 unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast 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 Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah; for he is waked up out of his holy habitation.

General references

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

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

But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against thee,

What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

For hath any said unto God, I have borne chastisement , I will not offend any more :

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.