Job 32:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, 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

Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your wisdom.

Job 32:15

They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.

Job 32:17

I also will answer my part, I also will shew mine opinion.

Proverbs 17:28

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: When he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent.

Amos 5:13

Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

James 1:19

Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: