Job Promises Silence

Job 40

³ Then Job answered the Lord and said:

⁴ "Behold, I am _z of small account; what shall I answer you?
_a I lay my hand on my mouth.
⁵ I have spoken _b once, and I will not answer;
_b twice, but I will proceed no further."

1. Cross References
   Job 42:6
   Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
   Ezra 9:6
   Saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
   
2. Cross References
   Job 21:5
   Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
   Job 29:9
   The princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth.
   Judges 18:19
   And they said to him, "Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?
   
3. Cross References
   Job 33:14
   For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
   Psalms 62:11
   Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God.
   
4. Cross References
   Job 33:14
   For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
   Psalms 62:11
   Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God.
   

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