King James Version
Job 21:5 in the King James Version says “Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. Mark: Heb. Look unto me” — study this verse from Job chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. Mark: Heb. Look unto me”
Job 21:5 · KJV
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? troubled: Heb. shortened?
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. Mark: Heb. Look unto me
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“me and be astonished”
H8074to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e., devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
“and lay”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“your hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“upon your mouth”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
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