Job 21:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 21:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their 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?
Proverbs 30:32
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
Psalms 39:9
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Job here recommends himself, both his case and his discourse, both what he suffered and what he said, to the compassionate consideration of his friends. 1. That which he entreats of them is very fair, that they would suffer him to speak (Job 21:3) and not break in upon him, as Zophar had done, in the midst of his discourse. Losers, of all men, may have leave to speak; and, if those that are accuse…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. 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).