Tree of Life Version
Job 21:5
5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
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
3Bear with me as I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. 4As for me, is my complaint against man? If so, why should I not be impatient? Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth. 6When I think of it, I am terrified and my flesh shudders. 7Why do the wicked go on living, growing old and increasing in power?
Read all of Job 21Job 21:5 word by word
פְּנוּ־אֵלַ֥י וְהָשַׁ֑מּוּ וְשִׂ֖ימוּ יָ֣ד עַל־פֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 21:5
- Job 2:12But when they saw him from a distance they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept. Each one tore his robe and threw dust into the air onto their heads.
- Job 17:8The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are stirred up against the ungodly.
- Job 19:20My bones cling to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
- Job 29:9princes refrained from talking and put their hand over their mouths;
- Job 40:4“Indeed, I am unworthy— what can I reply to You? I put my hand over my mouth.
- Judges 18:19“Be quiet!” they said to him. “Put your hand on your mouth and go with us and be to us a father and a priest! Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man or to be priest to a tribe and a clan in Israel?”
- Psalms 39:9Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of a fool.
- Proverbs 30:32If you have acted foolishly, exalting yourself, or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth.
- Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent keep silent at such a time —for it is a distressful time.
- Micah 7:16Nations will see and be put to shame despite all their might. They will put a hand on their mouth, their ears will be deaf.
- Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how incomprehensible His ways!
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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