Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth. New Living Translation Look at me and be stunned. Put your hand over your mouth in shock. English Standard Version Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. Berean Standard Bible Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth. King James Bible Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. New King James Version Look at me and be astonished; Put your hand over your mouth. New American Standard Bible “Look at me, and be astonished, And put your hand over your mouth. NASB 1995 “Look at me, and be astonished, And put your hand over your mouth. NASB 1977 “Look at me, and be astonished, And put your hand over your mouth. Legacy Standard Bible Look at me, and be appalled, And put your hand over your mouth. Amplified Bible “Look at me and be astonished and appalled; And put your hand over your mouth. Christian Standard Bible Look at me and shudder; put your hand over your mouth. Holman Christian Standard Bible Look at me and shudder; put your hand over your mouth. American Standard Version Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Return to me and marvel, and put your hands on your mouth! Brenton Septuagint Translation Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek. Contemporary English Version Just looking at me is enough to make you sick, Douay-Rheims Bible Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth. English Revised Version Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. GOD'S WORD® Translation Look at me, and be shocked, and put [your] hand over [your] mouth. Good News Translation Look at me. Isn't that enough to make you stare in shocked silence? International Standard Version Look at me, be appalled, and then shut up! JPS Tanakh 1917 Turn unto me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth. Literal Standard Version Turn to me, and be astonished, | And put hand to mouth. Majority Standard Bible Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth. New American Bible Look at me and be appalled, put your hands over your mouths. NET Bible Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths. New Revised Standard Version Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth. New Heart English Bible Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. Webster's Bible Translation Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. World English Bible Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. Young's Literal Translation Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job: God will Punish the Wicked…4Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient? 5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth. 6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.… Cross References Judges 18:19 "Be quiet," they told him. "Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?" Job 13:5 If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom! Job 29:9 The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands. Job 40:4 "Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth. Proverbs 30:32 If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth. Isaiah 52:15 so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard. Treasury of Scripture Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand on your mouth. Mark me. Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. Job 17:8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. Job 19:20,21 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth… lay your Job 29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Judges 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 be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? Jump to Previous Appalled Astonished Clap Full Hand Lay Mark Mouth Note Turn WonderJump to Next Appalled Astonished Clap Full Hand Lay Mark Mouth Note Turn WonderJob 21 1. Job shows that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved7. Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God 16. Sometimes their destruction is manifest 21. The happy and unhappy are alike in death 27. The judgment of the wicked is in another world Verses 5, 6. - Here we have an abrupt transition. Job is about to controvert Zophar's theory of the certain retribution that overtakes the wicked man in this life, and to maintain that, on the contrary, he usually prospers (vers. 7-18). Knowing that, in thus running counter to the general religious teaching, he will arouse much horror and indignation on the part of those who hear him, he prefaces his remarks with a notice that they will cause astonishment, and an acknowledgment that he himself cannot reflect upon the subject without a feeling of alarm and dismay. He thus hopes partially to disarm his opponents. Verse 5. - Mark me; literally, look to me; i.e. "attend to me," for I am about to say something well worth attention. And be astonished. Prepare yourselves, i.e., for something that will astonish you. And lay your hand upon your mouth. Harpocrates, the Egyptian god of silence, was often represented with his finger on his lips (see the author's 'History of Ancient Egypt,' vol. 1. p. 362). The symbolism is almost universal. Job begs his auditors to "refrain their lips," and, however much astonished, to keep silence until he has concluded. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Lookפְּנוּ־ (pə·nū-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 6437: To turn, to face, appear, look at me אֵלַ֥י (’ê·lay) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to and be astonished; וְהָשַׁ֑מּוּ (wə·hā·šam·mū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy put וְשִׂ֖ימוּ (wə·śî·mū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set your hand יָ֣ד (yāḏ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 3027: A hand over עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against your mouth. פֶּֽה׃ (peh) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to Links Job 21:5 NIVJob 21:5 NLT Job 21:5 ESV Job 21:5 NASB Job 21:5 KJV Job 21:5 BibleApps.com Job 21:5 Biblia Paralela Job 21:5 Chinese Bible Job 21:5 French Bible Job 21:5 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 21:5 Look at me and be astonished (Jb) |
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