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Job 29:9
City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands.
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Job 21:5
Look at me and shudder; put your hand over your mouth.
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Proverbs 30:32
If you have been foolish by exalting yourself or if you’ve been scheming, put your hand over your mouth.
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Job 42:6
Therefore I take back my words and repent in dust and ashes.
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Isaiah 6:5
Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.
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Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham answered,“ Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord— even though I am dust and ashes—
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Judges 18:19
They told him,“ Be quiet. Keep your mouth shut. Come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or for you to be a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
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Ezra 9:6
And I said: My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face toward You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt is as high as the heavens.
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Genesis 32:10
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.
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Job 23:4-7
I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.I would learn how He would answer me; and understand what He would say to me.Would He prosecute me forcefully? No, He will certainly pay attention to me.Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would escape from my Judge forever.
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Luke 18:13
“ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying,‘ God, turn Your wrath from me— a sinner!’
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Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in His holy temple; let everyone on earth be silent in His presence.
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Luke 5:8
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said,“ Go away from me, because I’m a sinful man, Lord!”
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Micah 7:16
Nations will see and be ashamed of all their power. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
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Job 16:21
I wish that someone might arbitrate between a man and God just as a man pleads for his friend.
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Job 31:37
I would give Him an account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.
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1 Timothy 1 15
This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance:“ Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”— and I am the worst of them.
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Psalms 51:4-5
Against You— You alone— I have sinned and done this evil in Your sight. So You are right when You pass sentence; You are blameless when You judge.Indeed, I was guilty when I was born; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
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Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
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1 Kings 19 4
but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said,“ I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”
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Daniel 9:5
we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned away from Your commands and ordinances.
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Luke 15:18-19
I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.’
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Ezra 9:15
Lord God of Israel, You are righteous, for we survive as a remnant today. Here we are before You with our guilt, though no one can stand in Your presence because of this.
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Job 9:31-35
then You dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me!For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.There is no one to judge between us, to lay his hand on both of us.Let Him take His rod away from me so His terror will no longer frighten me.Then I would speak and not fear Him. But that is not the case; I am on my own.
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Psalms 39:9
I am speechless; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
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Isaiah 53:6
We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for the iniquity of us all.
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Daniel 9:7
Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel— those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where You have dispersed them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward You.
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Zechariah 2:13
Let all people be silent before the Lord, for He is coming from His holy dwelling.”
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Nehemiah 9:33
You are righteous concerning all that has come on us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
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2 Samuel 24 10
David’s conscience troubled him after he had taken a census of the troops. He said to the Lord,“ I have sinned greatly in what I’ve done. Now, Lord, because I’ve been very foolish, please take away Your servant’s guilt.”