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

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, which am but dust and ashes:

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

And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away 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 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 thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest 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, the LORD of hosts.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath 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 thy precepts and from thy 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 thee,

And the publican, 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 acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

What

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

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

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

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a 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 thine hand upon thy mouth.

The nations shall see and be confounded 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, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is 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: 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 his place, and spread not, it is a burning 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.

Surely it is meet to be 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.