Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.
Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.
See, the eyes of Israel's keeper will not be shut in sleep.
I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.
They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.
A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.
Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.
Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.
When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.
So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.
I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
<To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.> Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;
Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.
Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.
And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.
And the doors of it will never be shut by day (for there is no night there):
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.
I have knowledge of your works (see, I have put before you an open door which may be shut by no one), and that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have been true to my name.
And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the high seat, a book with writing inside it and on the back, shut with seven stamps of wax.
What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.
See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in.
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