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 unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:

I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which you have showed unto your servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two bands.

And David's heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in what I have done: and now, I beseech you, O LORD, 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 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 not better than my fathers.

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our trespass has grown up unto the heavens.

Yet you are just in all that is brought upon us; for you have done right, but we have done wickedly:

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be blameless when you judge.

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 my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

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

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from your precepts and from your judgments:

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 will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,

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

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

What

Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

I would order my cause 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

Look at 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 your peace, lay your hand upon your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.

If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.

The nations shall see and be ashamed at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, 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 raised up out of his holy habitation.

General references

And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Suppose there shall thirty be 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 spreads not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you;

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

Surely it is fitting to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.