4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
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If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, I. A humbling challenge which God gave to Job. After he had heaped up many hard questions upon him, to show him, by his manifest ignorance in the works of nature, what an incompetent judge he was of the methods and designs of Providence, he clenches the nail with one demand more, which stands by itself here as the application of the whole. It should seem, God paused awhile, as Elihu had d…
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