² "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

⁶ As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

¹³ He who gives answer before he hears, That is folly and shame to him.

¹ "However, Job, Please hear my speech, And listen to all my words.

² "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

² "I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!

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

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

⁶ Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

² "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

² "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.

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