Job 18:2–3

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

⁶Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

¹³He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

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

²Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

²I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

³Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

²Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

⁶As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

¹WHEREFORE, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

²How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

²²So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

¹⁰But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

⁴For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

¹⁸I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

⁷But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

⁸Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

¹⁰Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;