Job 29:9
King James VersionSource notes
“The princes refrained talking, and laid hand on their mouth.”
Context
6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7When I went out to the gate through the city, I prepared my seat in the street!
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, stood up.
9The princes refrained talking, and laid hand on their mouth.
10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11When the ear heard then it blessed me; and when the eye saw it gave witness to me:
12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and none to help him.