³² "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, Or if you have thought evil, Put your hand over your mouth.

⁵ Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

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

²⁸ Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

¹² Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

³ Don't be hasty to go out of his presence. Don't persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

⁴ for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"

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

¹⁷ They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, And will be afraid because of you.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.