Job 40:4

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Job 40:4

“Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You?
I lay my hand on my mouth.

Job 29:9

“The princes stopped talking
And put their hands on their mouths;

Job 21:5

“Look at me, and be astonished,
And put your hand over your mouth.

Job 42:6

Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.”

They said to him, “Be silent, put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

Ezra 9:6

and I said, “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, for our iniquities have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown even to the heavens.

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 32:10

I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

2 Samuel 24:10

Now David’s heart troubled him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

1 Kings 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 my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Ezra 9:15

O Lord God of Israel, You are righteous, for we have been left an escaped remnant, as it is this day; behold, we are before You in our guilt, for no one can stand before You because of this.”

Nehemiah 9:33

“However, You are just in all that has come upon us;
For You have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.

Job 9:31-35

Yet You would plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes would abhor me.

Job 16:21

“O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!

Job 23:4-7

“I would present my case before Him
And fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 31:37

“I would declare to Him the number of my steps;
Like a prince I would approach Him.

Psalm 39:9

“I have become mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is You who have done it.

Psalm 51:4-5

Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

Proverbs 30:32

If you have been foolish in exalting yourself
Or if you have plotted evil, put your hand on your mouth.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said,
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

Isaiah 53:6

All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.

Isaiah 64:6

For all of us have become like one who is unclean,
And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us wither like a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Daniel 9:5

we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.

Daniel 9:7

“Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.

Micah 7:16

Nations will see and be ashamed
Of all their might.
They will put their hand on their mouth,
Their ears will be deaf.

Habakkuk 2:20

“But the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth be silent before Him.”

Zechariah 2:13

“Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord; for He is aroused from His holy habitation.”

Luke 5:8

But when Simon Peter saw that, he fell down at Jesus’ feet, saying, “Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

Luke 15:18-19

I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight;

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’

1 Timothy 1:15

It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.

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Job 40:4

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

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Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.”

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

and I said, “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, for our iniquities have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown even to the heavens.

“However, You are just in all that has come upon us;
For You have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.

Against You, You only, I have sinned

And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.