Job 40:4

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Job 40:4

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

Behold

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I will

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Bible References

Behold

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself 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 you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, 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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."

and I said, "My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

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, Yahweh of Armies!"

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

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is 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 your precepts and from your ordinances;

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

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

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

What

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, 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 to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

I will

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

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

They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go 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 a family in Israel?"

I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.

"If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

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

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!"

General references

He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

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

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

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.