Job 18:2

A Conservative Version

How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

He who gives answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.

However, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, and hearken to all my words.

Hear diligently my speech, And let this be your consolations.

Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

How long will thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?