And I have waited, but they do not speak, For they have stood still, They have not answered any more.)
O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
(They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words.
I answer, even I -- my share, I shew my opinion -- even I.
Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!
Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it `is'.
So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,