Job 21:5
Good News Translation
Look at me. Isn't that enough to make you stare in shocked silence?

New Revised Standard Version
Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Contemporary English Version
Just looking at me is enough to make you sick,

New American Bible
Look at me and be appalled, put your hands over your mouths.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.

Mark me.

Job 2:12 And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Job 17:8 The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.

Job 19:20,21 The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth. . . .

lay your

Job 29:9 The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.

Job 40:4 What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

Judges 18:19 And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and put thy finger on thy mouth, and come with us, that we may have thee for a father, and a priest. Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the house of one man, or in a tribe and family in Israel?

Psalm 39:9 I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

Proverbs 30:32 There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth.

Amos 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.

Micah 7:16 The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
4Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled? 5Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.6As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.…
Cross References
Judges 18:19
And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and put thy finger on thy mouth, and come with us, that we may have thee for a father, and a priest. Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the house of one man, or in a tribe and family in Israel?

Job 13:5
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

Job 29:9
The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.

Job 40:4
What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

Proverbs 30:32
There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth.

Isaiah 52:15
He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at him: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that heard not, have beheld.

Job 21:4
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