¹⁶ And I have waited, but they do not speak, For they have stood still, They have not answered any more.)

⁵ O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

²⁸ Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

¹³ Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it `is'.

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