Job 21:5
Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
In Context
4Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
6Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
Cross References
Judges 18:19And they answered him, Holde thy peace: lay thine hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs to be our father and Priest. Whether is it better that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto ye house of one man, or that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto a tribe and to a familie in Israel?
Job 17:8The righteous shalbe astonied at this, and the innocent shalbe moued against ye hypocrite.
Job 29:9The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.
Psalms 39:9I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.
Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent shall keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill time.
Romans 11:33O the deepenesse of the riches, both of the wisdome, and knowledge of God! howe vnsearcheable are his iudgements, and his wayes past finding out!
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 →