Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
KJV
Et si habes brachium sicut Deus ? et si voce simili tonas ?
Vulgate
ἢ βραχίων σοί ἐστιν κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου, ἢ φωνῇ κατ’ αὐτοῦ βροντᾷς;
LXX
Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.
ASV
הֵ֣ן קַ֭לֹּתִי מָ֣ה אֲשִׁיבֶ֑/ךָּ יָ֝דִ֗/י שַׂ֣מְתִּי לְמוֹ פִֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הָקֵל֙
hql
verb · 80×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
י
y
noun · 496×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
לְמוֹ
lmv
preposition · 4×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
נִ֨י
ny
pronoun · 313×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Is God a body? Is He composed of matter and form? Is there composition of quiddity, essence or nature, and subject in Him? Is He composed of essence and existence? Is He composed of genus and difference? Is He composed of subject and accident? Is He in any way composite, or wholly simple? Does He enter into composition with other things? Article 1. Whether God is a body? Object…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 4:4 — For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
- 1Kgs 19:4 — But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my l
- 1Tim 1:15 — This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
- 2Sam 24:10 — And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of t
- Dan 9:5 — We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
- Dan 9:7 — O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are fa
- Ezek 16:63 — That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezra 9:6 — And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
- Ezra 9:6 — And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
- Ezra 9:15 — O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
- Gen 18:27 — And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
- Gen 32:10 — I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
- Hab 2:20 — But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
- Isa 6:5 — Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
- Isa 53:6 — All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Isa 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
- Job 9:31 — Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- Job 13:15 — Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- Job 16:21 — O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
- Job 21:5 — Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- Job 21:5 — Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- Job 23:4 — I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
- Job 29:9 — The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
- Job 29:9 — The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
- Job 30:8 — They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
- Job 31:35 — Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
- Job 31:37 — I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
- Job 42:6 — Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
- Judg 18:19 — And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou
- Lam 3:29 — He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
- Luke 5:8 — When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
- Luke 5:8 — When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
- Luke 15:18 — I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
- Luke 18:13 — And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
- Mark 14:31 — But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.
- Matt 15:27 — And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
- Mic 7:16 — The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
- Mic 7:16 — The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
- Neh 9:33 — Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
- Prov 30:32 — If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.