“Behold, I am (A)of small account; what shall I answer you?
    (B)I lay my hand on my mouth.

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the princes refrained from talking
    and (A)laid their hand on their mouth;

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Look at me and be appalled,
    and (A)lay your hand over your mouth.

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therefore I despise myself,
    and repent[a] in (A)dust and ashes.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 42:6 Or and am comforted

And I said: “Woe is me! (A)For I am lost; (B)for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the (C)King, the Lord of hosts!”

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32 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
    or if you have been devising evil,
    (A)put your hand on your mouth.

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saying:

“O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities (A)have risen higher than our heads, and our (B)guilt has (C)mounted up to the heavens.

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19 And they said to him, “Keep quiet; (A)put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us (B)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?”

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10 (A)I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

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27 Abraham answered and said, (A)“Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

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15 The saying is (A)trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus (B)came into the world to save sinners, (C)of whom I am the foremost.

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13 But the tax collector, (A)standing far off, (B)would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but (C)beat his breast, saying, ‘God, (D)be merciful to me, a sinner!’

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18 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, (A)I have sinned against (B)heaven and before you. 19 (C)I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’

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But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, (A)“Depart from me, for (B)I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

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13 Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

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20 But (A)the Lord is in his holy temple;
    (B)let all the earth keep silence before him.”

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16 (A)The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
(B)they shall lay their hands on their mouths;
    their ears shall be deaf;

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To you, (A)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (B)those who are near and (C)those who are far away, in (D)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (E)the treachery that they have committed against you.

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(A)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly (B)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.

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(A)We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(B)We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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(A)All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
(B)and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

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(A)Against you, you only, have I sinned
    and done what is evil (B)in your sight,
(C)so that you may be justified in your words
    and blameless in your judgment.
Behold, (D)I was brought forth in iniquity,
    and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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(A)I am mute; I do not open my mouth,
    (B)for it is you who have done it.

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37 I would give him an account of all my steps;
    like a prince I would approach him.

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I would (A)lay my case before him
    and fill my mouth with arguments.
I would know what he would answer me
    and understand what he would say to me.
Would he (B)contend with me in the greatness of his power?
    No; he would pay attention to me.
There an upright man could argue with him,
    and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

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