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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Job 21:5

lay . . . hand upon . . . mouth— (Proverbs 30:32; Judges 18:19). So the heathen god of silence was pictured with his hand on his mouth. There was enough in Job's case to awe them into silence (Job 17:8).

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