Proverbs 17:28

Young's Literal Translation 1862

Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

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O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

And I have waited, but they do not speak, For they have stood still, They have not answered any more.)

The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.

For `an object of' desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, `He `is' a fool.'

For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.