World English Bible
Job 29:9
“The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.”
Verse in context — Job 29
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when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
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The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
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The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
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For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
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