Job 5:16
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
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- Psalm 107:42 The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.
- 1 Samuel 2:8–9 He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them. He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.
- Psalm 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.