Job 40:4
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4 “See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.(A)
Proverbs 30:32
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32 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
or if you have been devising evil,
put your hand on your mouth.(A)
Job 29:9
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9 the nobles refrained from talking
and laid their hands on their mouths;(A)
Job 21:5
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5 Look at me and be appalled,
and lay your hand upon your mouth.(A)
Job 42:6
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6 therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”(A)
Luke 18:13
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13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’(A)
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Isaiah 6:5
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5 And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”(A)
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Ezra 9:6
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6 and said,
“O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed 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.(A)
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Judges 18:19
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19 They said to him, “Keep quiet! Put your hand over 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 person or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”(A)
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Genesis 32:10
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10 I am not worthy of the least of all the 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 companies.(A)
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Genesis 18:27
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27 Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.(A)
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1 Timothy 1:15
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15 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost.(A)
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Luke 15:18-19
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18 I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.” ’
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Luke 5:8
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8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’s knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”
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Zechariah 2:13
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13 Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.(A)
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Habakkuk 2:20
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20 But the Lord is in his holy temple;
let all the earth keep silence before him!(A)
Micah 7:16
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16 The nations shall see and be ashamed
of all their might;
they shall lay their hands on their mouths;
their ears shall be deaf;(A)
Daniel 9:7
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7 “Righteousness is on your side, O Lord, but open shame, as at this day, falls on us, the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them because of the treachery that they have committed against you.(A)
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Daniel 9:5
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5 we have sinned and done wrong, acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and ordinances.(A)
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Isaiah 64:6
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6 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.(A)
Isaiah 53:6
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6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.(A)
Psalm 51:4-5
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4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence
and blameless when you pass judgment.(A)
5 Indeed, I was born guilty,
a sinner when my mother conceived me.(B)
Psalm 39:9
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9 I am silent; I do not open my mouth,
for it is you who have done it.(A)
Job 31:37
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37 I would give him an account of all my steps;
like a prince I would approach him.(A)
Job 23:4-7
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4 I would lay my case before him
and fill my mouth with arguments.(A)
5 I would learn what he would answer me
and understand what he would say to me.
6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power?
No, but he would give heed to me.
7 There the upright could reason with him,
and I should be acquitted forever by my judge.(B)
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