Job 21:5

⁹The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

¹⁹They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

⁴“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

³²“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

⁹I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

²⁰My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. ²¹“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

³³Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

¹³Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

⁸Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

¹⁶The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.