The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
“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?”
If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!