“ Indeed, I am completely unworthy– how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

“我是卑贱的！我用什么回答你呢？只好用手捂口。

“看哪，我是卑贱的！我用什么回答你呢？我只好用手捂住我的口。

“看哪，我是卑贱的！我用什么回答你呢？我只好用手捂住我的口。

“我这样卑微，怎能答复你？我只有用手掩口。

“我是微小的，可以回答你什么呢？我只好用手掩口。

我是卑賤的！我用甚麼回答你呢？只好用手摀口。

「看哪，我是卑賤的！我用甚麼回答你呢？我只好用手摀住我的口。

「看哪，我是卑賤的！我用甚麼回答你呢？我只好用手摀住我的口。

「我這樣卑微，怎能答覆你？我只有用手掩口。

“我是微小的，可以回答你甚麼呢？我只好用手掩口。

『啊，我輕微，能答覆你甚麼？我只好用手摀口罷了。

我乃微賤、何以答爾、惟以手掩口耳、

渺我微軀、弗能應對、無以措辭、

我甚輕賤、何以答主、惟以手掩口、

“ I am unworthy— how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.

“ I’m not worthy. How can I reply to you? I’m putting my hand over my mouth. I’ll stop talking.

“ Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

“ I am nothing— how could I ever find the answers? I will cover my mouth with my hand.

I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I place my hand over my mouth.

“ Behold, I am insignificant; what can I say in response to You? I put my hand on my mouth.

“ Behold, I am vile; What shall I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.

Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

I am so insignificant. How can I answer You? I place my hand over my mouth.

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

“ Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;

Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.

If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth!

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

I said,“ Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD who commands armies.”

Then Abraham asked,“ Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord( although I am but dust and ashes),

They said to him,“ Shut up! Put your hand over your mouth and come with us! You can be our adviser and priest. Wouldn’t it be better to be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for just one man’s family?”

I prayed,“ O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.

I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said,‘ God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’

But the LORD is in his majestic palace. The whole earth is speechless in his presence!”

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying,“ Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

Nations will see this and be disappointed by all their strength, they will put their hands over their mouths, and act as if they were deaf.

and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance:“ Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”– and I am the worst of them!

Against you– you above all– I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.

while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the LORD to take his life:“ I’ve had enough! Now, O LORD, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”

we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.

I will get up and go to my father and say to him,“ Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.”’

O LORD God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt no one can really stand before you.”

then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done.

All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

“ You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day– the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

Be silent in the LORD’s presence, all people everywhere, for he is being moved to action in his holy dwelling place.

You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!

David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the LORD,“ I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O LORD, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”