Job 40:4New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Lo! I am of no account, what shall I reply to thee? My hand, have I laid on my mouth:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Behold, I am vile, what shall I answere thee? I wil lay my hand vpon my mouth.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Behold, I am unworthy; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these [arguments]? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. |
Behold,
x2005 (2005) Complementהֵןhen{hane}
A primitive particle; lo! also (as expressing surprise) if.
I am vile;
7043 {7043} Primeקָלַלqalal{kaw-lal'}
A primitive root; to be (causatively make) light, literally ( swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively ( easy, trifling, vile, etc.).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
what
x4100 (4100) Complementמָּהmah{maw}
A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational senses.
shall I answer
7725 {7725} Primeשׁוּבshuwb{shoob}
A primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbially again.
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
thee? I will lay
7760 {7760} Primeשׂוּםsuwm{soom}
A primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literally, figuratively, inferentially and elliptically).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
mine hand
3027 {3027} Primeיָדyad{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.
upon
3926 {3926} Primeלְמוֹl@mow{lem-o'}
A prolonged and separable form of the prefixed preposition; to or for.
my mouth.
6310 {6310} Primeפֶּהpeh{peh}
From H6284; the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literally or figuratively (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to. |
Job 40:4
_ _ I am (too) vile (to reply). It is a very different thing to vindicate ourselves before God, from what it is before men. Job could do the latter, not the former.
_ _ lay ... hand ... upon ... mouth — I have no plea to offer (Job 21:5; Judges 18:19). |
Job 40:4
Behold, I am (r) vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
(r) By which he shows that he repented and desired pardon for his faults. |
- Behold:
Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes:
Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
2 Samuel 24:10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.
Ezra 9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Ezra 9:15 O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
Nehemiah 9:33 Howbeit thou [art] just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
Psalms 51:4-5 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest. ... Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Daniel 9:5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Daniel 9:7 O Lord, righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are] near, and [that are] far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter saw [it], he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
Luke 15:18-19 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, ... And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Luke 18:13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
1 Timothy 1:15 This [is] a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
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- what:
Job 9:31-35 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. ... [Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.
Job 16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!
Job 23:4-7 I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ... There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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- I will:
Job 21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] 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?
Psalms 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].
Proverbs 30:32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.
Micah 7:16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Habakkuk 2:20 But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Zechariah 2:13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
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