Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your wisdom.
Oh, that you would altogether hold your peace! Then you would evidence your wisdom and you might pass for wise men.
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
Would that you were completely quiet; that would be your wisdom.
And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.
Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
“How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
And shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand there, and answer no more?
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time.
Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,