KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 21:5–6
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Job 21:5
5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
5†Marke mee, and be astonished, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
- Heb. looke vnto me.
Job 21:6
6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
6Euen when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh holde on my flesh.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 21:5
A visible sign or impression; as a verb, to notice, designate, or set a sign upon.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
astonished
Amazed; confounded with fear, surprise, or admiration.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
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Job 21:6
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To retain or bring to mind; to be mindful of, regard, mention, or act upon a remembrance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Fearful or apprehensive.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The soft substance of the body; also the body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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Open the full verse study4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
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Open the full verse study19And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
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Open the full verse study32If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
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Open the full verse study13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
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Open the full verse study8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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Open the full verse study20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
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Open the full verse study12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
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Open the full verse study16¶ The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
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Open the full verse study9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
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Open the full verse study33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study16When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
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Open the full verse study19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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Open the full verse study120My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
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Open the full verse study3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
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Open the full verse study15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
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