Women's Prayer Group In Christ

Of the power of God in the behemoth and the leviathan.

“Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.” (Job 40:4)

To withhold speech in prudence is better than utterance of careless words in sin.

“As if he said, I would defend my speech, if I had uttered it with weight of reason. But after a tongue is convicted of having used levity, what remains for it but to be restrained with silence? It follows, I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. In the usage of Holy Scripture, work is wont to be understood by the hand, speech by the mouth. To lay therefore the hand upon the mouth, is by the virtue of good living to conceal the faults of incautious speech. But who can be found, however perfect, who has not offended in idle words? As James witnesses, who says, ‘Be not many masters, for in many things we offend all.’ [James 3, 1] And again, ‘The tongue can no man tame.’” – St. Gregory the Dialogist