Job 29:10
The voice of the ranking men was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
In Context
9The rulers refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
11For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me.
Cross References
Ezekiel 3:26And I will make thy tongue cling to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shall be mute, and shall not be a reprover to them, for they are a rebellious house.
Matthew Henry on Job 29:8-18
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The… Read the whole commentary →