⁵ If only you would be altogether silent!^(A)
    For you, that would be wisdom.^(B)

⁵ Look at me and be appalled;
    clap your hand over your mouth.^(A)

⁹ the chief men refrained from speaking^(A)
    and covered their mouths with their hands;^(B)

⁴ “I am unworthy^(A)—how can I reply to you?
    I put my hand over my mouth.^(B)

¹⁶ Nations will see and be ashamed,^(A)
    deprived of all their power.
They will put their hands over their mouths^(B)
    and their ears will become deaf.