Job 32:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, [and] answered no more;)

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:5 : 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
  • Prov 17:28 : 28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 ¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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