Job 40:4

Job confesses he is of small account and lays his hand on his mouth, having no answer for God. Confronted by God, Job falls silent in humility.

Cross-references · 30

• Prov 30:32If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
• Job 29:9The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
• Job 21:5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
• Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
• Judg 18:19“Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
• Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
• Gen 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
• Zech 2:13Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”
• Luke 18:13But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
• Luke 15:18–19I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
• Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
• 1 Tim 1:15This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
• Ps 39:9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
• Gen 32:10I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
• Mic 7:16Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
• Isa 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
• Job 9:31–35then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
• Dan 9:7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
• Dan 9:5we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
• Hab 2:20But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.
• Ps 51:4–5Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
• Neh 9:33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
• Isa 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
• Isa 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
• Ezra 9:15O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”
• 2 Sam 24:10After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
• Job 16:21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
• Job 31:37I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—
• Job 23:4–7I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
• 1 Kgs 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

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