Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

New American Standard Bible

“Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You?
I lay my hand on my mouth.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I am so insignificant. How can I answer You?
I place my hand over my mouth.

International Standard Version

"I must look insignificant to you! How can I answer you? I'm speechless.

American Standard Version

Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

Amplified


“Behold, I am of little importance and contemptible; what can I reply to You?
I lay my hand on my mouth.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.

Darby Translation

Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

Julia Smith Translation

Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Look, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will lay my hand on my mouth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.

NET Bible

"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

New Heart English Bible

"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

The Emphasized Bible

Lo! I am of no account, what shall I reply to thee? My hand, have I laid on my mouth:

Webster

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

World English Bible

"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Behold, I am vile
קלל 
Qalal 
Usage: 82

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

thee I will lay
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

למו 
L@mow 
for, at, to, upon
Usage: 7

References

Fausets

Context Readings

I Am The Lord All-Powerful

3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. 5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.



Cross References

Job 29:9

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

Job 21:5

Look at me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 42:6

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

Judges 18:19

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?

Ezra 9:6

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.

Genesis 18:27

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

Genesis 32:10

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.

2 Samuel 24:10

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.

1 Kings 19:4

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.

Ezra 9:15

O LORD God of Israel, you are righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before you in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before you because of this.

Nehemiah 9:33

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

Job 9:31-35

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

Job 16:21

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

Job 23:4-7

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 31:37

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

Psalm 39:9

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

Psalm 51:4-5

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.

Proverbs 30:32

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

Isaiah 6:5

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.

Isaiah 53:6

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.

Isaiah 64:6

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.

Daniel 9:5

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

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongs unto you, but unto us shame of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be ashamed at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

Habakkuk 2:20

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

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD: for he has raised up out of his holy habitation.

Luke 5:8

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

Luke 15:18-19

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,

Luke 18:13

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.

1 Timothy 1:15

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.

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