Job 18:2

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“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we shall speak.

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

If one gives answer before hearing, it is folly and shame.

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

“Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

“Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and should one full of talk be vindicated?

“How long will you say these things and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

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

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?