Job 13:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ Could you hold your peace, it would be your wisdom.

³ Be not profuse of words, because there is none to answer thee:

¹³ Keep silence that I may speak, and have some respite from wrath.

³ what! Have words of wind a regular succession? Or can they give thee offence, considering thine answer?

² How long will it be ere thou wilt stop? Forbear that we may speak.

² How long will you make my soul sorrowful? You are indeed destroying me with words. Know at least; because the Lord hath dealt thus with me;

² hear, hear my words. Can I not have this consolation from you? ³ Bear with me, and when I speak do not deride me.

¹ Here Job closed his speech, and his three friends ceased from making further reply to him; for he was righteous in their sight.

²⁸ Wisdom will be imputed to a fool, who inquireth after wisdom: and he who imposeth silence on himself will be esteemed wise.

³ Because a dream cometh by much temptation, and a fool's voice with many words;

¹³ therefore the prudent will at that time be silent because it is the time of wicked men.

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: