Job 40:4 Cross References - NSB

⁴ »I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I will put my hand over my mouth.

²⁷ Then Abraham answered and said: »Indeed now, I who am only dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to Jehovah:

¹⁰ »I am less than nothing in comparison with all your love and your faithfulness to me your servant. I only had a stick in my hand when I traveled across Jordan. Now I have become two armies.

¹⁹ They told him: »Be quiet. Do not say a word. Come with us and be our priest and adviser. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?«

¹⁰ After David had everyone counted, he felt guilty and told Jehovah: »What I did was stupid and terribly wrong. Jehovah, please forgive me.«

⁴ Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. »It is just too much, Jehovah,« he prayed. »Take away my life. I could just as well be dead.«

⁶ I said, »O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face (praying) to you (being in your presence), my God: for our sins have increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

¹⁵ »O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteousness is yours. We are only a small band that has been kept from death this day. See, we are before you in our sin. For no one may keep his place before you because of this.«

³³ »You have been in the right in everything that happened to us. You have been true to us, but we have done evil!

³¹ »Yet you will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me. ³² »God is not a man, as I am: That I may answer him and we should go to court together. ³³ »Nor is there any mediator between us who may lay his hand on us both. ³⁴ »Let God remove his rod from me. Do not let dread of him terrify me. ³⁵ »I would speak and not respect God. But I cannot do this!

²¹ »O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!

⁵ »Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

⁴ »I would present my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ »I would learn what he would answer and perceive what he would say to me. ⁶ »Would He contend with me using his great power? No, surely He would pay attention to me. ⁷ »There the upright would reason with him. I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

⁹ »The nobles refrained from talking, and laid their hands on their mouths.

³⁷ »I would give him an account of all my steps. Like a prince I would approach him.

⁶ »Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.«

⁹ »I remained speechless. I did not open my mouth because you have done this.

⁴ I have sinned against you, especially you. I have done what you consider evil in your sight. So you hand down justice when you speak, and you are blameless when you judge. ⁵ Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

³² If you foolishly exalted yourself, or if you thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.

⁵ »Woe to me!« I cried. »I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips (a sinner) and I live among a people of unclean (filthy) lips (speech) (language). My eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.«

⁶ We are all like sheep. We have gone astray! Each of us has turned to his own way. Jehovah has caused the iniquity (sin) of all of us to be laid on him.

⁶ All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.

⁵ »We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

⁷ »O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

¹⁶ »The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might! They will cover their mouth with their hand and their ears will be deaf.

²⁰ »Jehovah is in his Holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.«

¹³ Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah, for he is aroused out of his holy dwelling.

⁸ When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at Jesus’ knees. He said: »Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord.«

¹⁸ »I will go to my father and say: ‘Father I have sinned against God and against you. ¹⁹ »I am not fit to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired workers.’

¹³ »But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost.