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 despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of your 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 broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."

saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for 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, the LORD of hosts!"

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

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.

But when Simon Peter saw it, he 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 I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

What

yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.

I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

I will

Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.

the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;

And they said to him, "Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come 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 clan in Israel?"

I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.

If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;

But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him."

Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

General references

Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

But if the spot remains in one place and does 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 to you,

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

"For has anyone said to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;

I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.