Job 18:2

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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

He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.

Howbeit, 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 wilt 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 answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?