World English Bible
"The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth."
— Job 29:9, World English Bible
“The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.”
“The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; ”
“the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;”
“The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.”
“The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;”
“The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.”
when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,