Job 40:4

If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

“Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it bet

Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher t

Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; fo

This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”

Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ear

I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf

while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die.

You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem,

Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of u

we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordin

But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what

I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak

O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, thou