If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.
Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf; they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases. For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, “What are you doing?”
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
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