Job 29:10
The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
In Context
9The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
11The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
Cross References
Ezekiel 3:26And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they are a provoking 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 →