Job 21:5
Turn yourselves unto me, and be astounded, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
In Context
4As for me,—is against man my complaint? and if this be so, why should my spirit not be impatient?
6Yea, when I think of it, I am terrified, and shuddering seizeth hold of my flesh.
Cross References
Judges 18:19And they said unto him, Be still, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and become to us a father and a priest: is it better that thou be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
Job 17:8Upright men must be astonished at this, and the innocent must arouse himself against the hypocrite.
Job 29:9Princes stopped in the midst of [their] words, and laid their hand on their mouth:
Psalms 39:9(39:10) I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou hadst done it.
Amos 5:13Therefore will the intelligent keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:2-7
The Reply of Job to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? 5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. Job here recommends himself, both his case and his discourse, both what he… Read the whole commentary →