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Job 21:5
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Look at me and be stunned. Put your hand over your mouth in shock.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand on your mouth.
Look at me and be shocked; put your hand over your mouth in shock.
Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
"Look at me and be astonished and appalled; And put your hand over your mouth.
Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
Perseyue ye me, and be ye astonyed; and sette ye fyngur on youre mouth.
Look at me and be astonished; put your hand over your mouth.
Just looking at me is enough to make you sick,
Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.
Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.
Look at me, and be appalled; cover your mouth with your hand!
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
Look at me and be shocked. Put your hand over your mouth, and stare at me in shock!
Turn unto me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Marke mee, and be astonished, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
Look at me, and be surprised; and put your hand over your mouth.
Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
Return to me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Look at me. Isn't that enough to make you stare in shocked silence?
Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth!
Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Marke me [well] and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth.
Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.
Look at me and shudder;put your hand over your mouth.
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
Turn to me and be appalled, and place your hand on your mouth.
Turn toward me and be astonished, and put your hand on your mouth.
Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
Marck me well, be aba?shed, and laye youre hade vpon youre mouth.
"Look at me, and be astonished, And put your hand over your mouth.
Look at me and be astonished; Put your hand over your mouth.
"Look at me, and be astonished, And put your hand over your mouth.
Look at me, and be appalled,And put your hand over your mouth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Mark me: Heb. Look unto me
be astonished: Job 2:12, Job 17:8, Job 19:20, Job 19:21
lay your: Job 29:9, Job 40:4, Judges 18:19, Psalms 39:9, Proverbs 30:32, Amos 5:13, Micah 7:16, Romans 11:33
Cross-References
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Mark me,.... Or "look at me" n; not at his person, which was no lovely sight to behold, being covered with boils from head to foot, his flesh clothed with worms and clods of dust, his skin broken, yea, scarce any left; however, he was become a mere skeleton, reduced to skin and bone; but at his sorrows, and sufferings, and consider and contemplate them in their minds, and see if there was any sorrow like his, or anyone that suffered as he did, and in such pitiful circumstances; or that they would have a regard to his words, and well weigh what he had said, or was about to say, concerning his own case, or concerning the providences of God with respect to good and bad men, and especially the latter:
and be astonished; at what had befallen him, at his afflictions, being an innocent man, and not chargeable with any crime for which it could be thought that these came upon him; and at the different methods of Providence towards good men and bad men, the one being afflicted, and the other in prosperous circumstances, see Job 17:8;
and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth; and be silent, since such dispensations of Providence are unsearchable, and past finding out; and, as they are not to be accounted for, are not to be spoken against: and it would have been well if Job had taken the same advice himself, and had been still, and owned and acknowledged the sovereignty of God, and not opened his mouth in the manner he had done, and cursed the of his birth, and complained of hard treatment at the hand of God perhaps his sense may be, that he would have his friends be silent, and forbear drawing the characters of men from the outward dealings of God with them. This phrase is used of silence in Job 29:9; thus Harpocrates, the god of silence with the Heathens, is always pictured with his hand to his mouth.
n פנו אלי "respicite ad me", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Mark me - Margin, “look unto.” Literally, “Look upon me. That is, attentively look on me, on my sufferings, on my disease, and my losses. See if I am a proper object of repreach and mockery - see if I have not abundant reason to be in deep distress when God has afflicted me in a manner so unusual and mysterious.
And be astonished - Silent astonishment should be evinced instead of censure. You should wonder that a man whose life has been a life of piety, should exhibit the spectacle which you now behold, while so many proud contemners of God are permitted to live in affluence and ease.
And lay your hand upon your mouth - As a token of silence and wonder. So Plutarch, de Iside et Osiride, “Wherefore, he had laid his finger on his mouth as a symbol of silence and admiration - ἐχεμυθίας καὶ σιωπῆς σύμβολον echemuthias kai siōpēs sumbolon.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 21:5. Mark me, and be astonished — Consider and compare the state in which I was once, with that in which I am now; and be astonished at the judgments and dispensations of God. You will then be confounded; you will put your hands upon your mouths, and keep silent.
Putting the hand on the mouth, or the finger on the lips, was the token of silence. The Egyptian god Harpocrates, who was the god of silence, is represented with his finger compressing his upper lip.
