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Job 21:5
5When you look at me, you should be upset. You should cover your mouth with your hand.
Job 21:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- New International Version (NIV)Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Look at me and be astonished; Put your hand over your mouth.
Context of Job 21:5
3Be patient with me so that I can speak. After you have heard what I say, you may choose to laugh at me. 4It is not people that I want to argue with. So I have good reason to be upset. When you look at me, you should be upset. You should cover your mouth with your hand. 6I think about what has happened to me. It makes me very afraid. My body shakes with fear. 7Why do wicked people continue to live for a long time? The older they become, the more power they have.
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פְּנוּ־אֵלַ֥י וְהָשַׁ֑מּוּ וְשִׂ֖ימוּ יָ֣ד עַל־פֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 21:5
- Job 2:12When they could see Job from far away, they did not easily recognize him. They began to weep very loudly. They were so upset that they tore their clothes. They threw dust into the air and on their heads.
- Job 17:8Good people are upset, when they see what is happening to me. They are angry with those who turn away from you.
- Job 19:20My body is now only skin and bones. I still breathe but I am only just alive.
- Job 29:9The city's rulers would stop speaking. They would cover their mouths with their hands.
- Job 40:4‘I am only a foolish man. I cannot answer your questions. I cover my mouth with my hand so that I say nothing.
- Judges 18:19They said to him, ‘Be quiet! Do not say a word. Come with us. You will be our advisor and our priest. That will be much better for you. You will serve a whole Israelite tribe, instead of only one man's family.’
- Psalms 39:9I will not say anything more. I will not open my mouth, because it is you who have punished me!
- Proverbs 30:32You may be foolish and too proud of yourself. You may have ideas to do evil things. If that is true, stop yourself! Do not say a word!
- Amos 5:13This is such an evil time that clever people say nothing. That is how they keep themselves safe.’
- Micah 7:16The people in other countries will see what you do. They will understand that they are not really powerful. So then they will be ashamed. They will be like deaf people and dumb people.
- Romans 11:33Yes! God is very great! He has everything! He knows and he understands all things! Nobody can completely understand the things that he decides. Nobody can explain the ways in which he works.
Commentaries on Job 21:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Mark me, and be astonished - Consider and compare the state in which I was once, with that in which I am now; and be astonished at the judgments and dispensations of God. You will then be confounded; you will put your hands upon your mouths, and keep silent. Putting the hand on the mouth, or the finger on the lips, was the token of silence. The Egyptian god Harpocrates, who was the god of silence, is represented with his finger compressing his upper lip.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Mark me - Margin, “look unto.” Literally, “Look upon me. That is, attentively look on me, on my sufferings, on my disease, and my losses. See if I am a proper object of repreach and mockery - see if I have not abundant reason to be in deep distress when God has afflicted me in a manner so unusual and mysterious. And be astonished - Silent astonishment should be evinced instead of censure. You should wonder that a man whose life has been a life of piety…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. lay ... hand upon ... mouth--(Pr 30:32; Jud 18:19). So the heathen god of silence was pictured with his hand on his mouth. There was enough in Job's case to awe them into silence (Job 17:8).Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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