If you would only be silent, then it would be your wisdom!
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your wisdom.
Oh, that you would altogether hold your peace! Then you would evidence your wisdom and you might pass for wise men.
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
Would that you were completely quiet; that would be your wisdom.
And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.
Should your babblings silence men? And should you mock, and no one make you ashamed?
Be silent before me, and let me speak, and let whatever come upon me!
Please hear my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what provokes you that you answer?
“When do you put an end to words? Understand, and let us then talk.
“How long would you grieve my life, and crush me with words?
Look at me and be appalled, then put your hand on your mouth.
Then these three men ceased to answer Iyoḇ, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
And I have waited, but they do not speak, because they have stood still, they answered no more.
Even a fool keeping silence is regarded as wise, As understanding, when he closes his lips.
For a dream comes through the greatness of the task, and a fool’s voice is known by his many words.
Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time.
So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,