5 I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”
Job 40:5
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2 Esdras 4:45–47
45 show me this also, whether there is more to come than is past, or whether the greater part has gone over us. (WEB) 46 For what is gone I know, but I don’t know what is to come.” (WEB) 47 He said to me, “Stand up on my right side, and I will explain the parable to you.” (WEB)
Job 16:5–7
5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief. 6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away? 7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
Job 18:1–3
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: 2 “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk. 3 Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
Psalms 38:13–15
13 But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth. 14 I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply. 15 I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
Job 13:4–6
4 You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians. 5 If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom! 6 Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.
Job 29:21–23
21 Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel. 22 After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew. 23 They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
Job 33:13–15
13 Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks? 14 For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices. 15 In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
Sirach 20:5–7
5 There is one who keeps silent and is found wise; and there is one who is hated for his much talk. (WEB) 6 There is one who keeps silent, for he has no answer to make; And there is one who keeps silent, knowing when to speak. (WEB) 7 A wise man will be silent until his time has… (WEB)
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