the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;
Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
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?”
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