| Job 21:5
| Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
| Hearken to. Literally, "look steadfastly on me." (Haydock) --- Compare my present with my former condition, and do not pretend to fathom God's judgments; which fill me also with astonishment, when I consider why the virtuous are distressed, and the wicked prosper, ver. 7. --- Mouth be silent. Harpocrates, the god of silence, was represented in this posture; and Virgil says, Intentique ora tenebant. (Aeneid ii.) --- Septuagint, "upon the cheek," like men in deep consideration. (Calmet)
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