Job 13:5

⁵Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

⁵O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

⁵If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!

⁵I wish you would all be quiet! That would be the wisest thing for you to do.

²⁸Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

¹⁹So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

¹³“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

³For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

³Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

²“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

²“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. ³Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.

¹So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

³Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

¹³Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.