Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Look, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I 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 And Job answered Jehovah and said, 4 Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will lay my hand on my mouth. 5 Once I have spoken; but I will not answer; yea, twice, but I will go no further.



Cross References

Job 29:9

The rulers held back from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Job 21:5

Turn to me and be amazed, and lay your hand on your mouth.

Job 42:6

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

Judges 18:19

And they said to him, Be quiet, lay 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 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 I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to You, my God. For our iniquities have increased over our heads, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to Jehovah, 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 done to 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 struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done. And now, I beseech You, O Jehovah, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

1 Kings 19:4

And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.

Ezra 9:15

O Jehovah, the God of Israel, You are righteous. For we are left a remnant that has escaped, as today. Behold, we are before You in our sins, for we cannot stand before You because of this.

Nehemiah 9:33

But 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 You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.

Job 16:21

Oh 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 to Him the number of my steps; like a prince I would go near Him.

Psalm 39:9

I was dumb, I did not open my mouth; because You have done it.

Psalm 51:4-5

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, and be clear when You judge.

Proverbs 30:32

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

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone; 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, Jehovah of Hosts.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 64:6

But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all 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 commandments and from Your judgments.

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of our faces, as it is today to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, and to all Israel who are near and who are afar off, through all the countries where You have driven them because of their sin which they have sinned against You.

Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be ashamed at all their might; they shall lay their hand on their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.

Habakkuk 2:20

But Jehovah is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah; for He has risen out of His holy dwelling place.

Luke 5:8

And seeing, Simon Peter fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.

Luke 15:18-19

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

Luke 18:13

And standing afar off, the tax-collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but struck on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner!

1 Timothy 1:15

Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

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