King James Version (KJV)
Job 29:10
“The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.”
Verse in context — Job 29
8
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.
9
The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.
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The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11
When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:
12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
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