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Job 29:9

World English Bible

The princes refrained from talking,
and laid their hand on their mouth.

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Job 29:9 in other translations

The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

Job 29:9 · American Standard Version

Job 29:9 in context

  1. 7when I went out to the city gate,
    when I prepared my seat in the street.
  2. 8The young men saw me and hid themselves.
    The aged rose up and stood.
  3. 9The princes refrained from talking,
    and laid their hand on their mouth.
  4. 10The voice of the nobles was hushed,
    and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
  5. 11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;
    and when the eye saw me, it commended me: