Job 32:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ And am I to wait because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ When I had waited, (for they spake not, But stood still, and answered no more;)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And shall I wait, because they say nothing but stand still and answer no more?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, and answer no more?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ I waited, but they didn’t speak, for they stood but answered no more.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Therefore, because I have waited and they have not been speaking, for they stood firm and did not respond at all,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Therefore because I have waited, and they have not spoken: they stood, and answered no more:

Job 32:16 Cross References

Job 13:5

If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!

Job 32:15

“They are dismayed; they answer no more; they have not a word to say.

Job 32:17

I also will give my answer; I also will declare my opinion.

Proverbs 17:28

Even fools who keep silent are considered wise; when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

James 1:19

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,