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

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.

²⁸ Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

¹² Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

³ Be not troubled at his presence, thou mayest go, stand not in an evil thing, for all that he pleaseth he doth.

⁴ Where the word of a king `is' power `is', and who saith to him, `What dost thou?'

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

¹⁷ They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, They tremble from their enclosures, Of Jehovah our God they are afraid, Yea, they are afraid of Thee.

¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;