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

⁵ Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.

⁴ Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

²⁸ Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

¹² Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

³ Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.

⁴ The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?

¹⁶ The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.

¹⁷ They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: