If you would only keep silent, that 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 babble put others to silence, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?
“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we shall speak.
“How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
And am I to wait because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more?
Even fools who keep silent are considered wise; when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent.
For dreams come with many cares, and a fool’s voice with many words.
Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,