⁵ Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.

⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

⁹ Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

¹⁹ and they say to him, `Keep silent, lay thy hand on thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us for a father and for a priest: is it better thy being a priest to the house of one man, or thy being priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?'

³² If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!

³³ O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

¹⁶ See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

¹³ Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it `is'.

⁹ I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done `it'.

²⁰ To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

⁸ Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.

¹² and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads -- heavenward.