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“How long before you stop talking?
    Speak sense if you want us to answer!

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“When will you end these speeches?(A)
    Be sensible, and then we can talk.

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Listening and Doing

19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

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Listening and Doing

19 My dear brothers and sisters,(A) take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak(B) and slow to become angry,

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13 Spouting off before listening to the facts
    is both shameful and foolish.

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13 To answer before listening—
    that is folly and shame.(A)

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Elihu Presents His Case against Job

33 “Listen to my words, Job;
    pay attention to what I have to say.

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33 “But now, Job, listen(A) to my words;
    pay attention to everything I say.(B)

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“Listen closely to what I am saying.
    That’s one consolation you can give me.

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“Listen carefully to my words;(A)
    let this be the consolation you give me.(B)

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“I have heard all this before.
    What miserable comforters you are!
Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air?
    What makes you keep on talking?

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“I have heard many things like these;
    you are miserable comforters,(A) all of you!(B)
Will your long-winded speeches never end?(C)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?(D)

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If only you could be silent!
    That’s the wisest thing you could do.
Listen to my charge;
    pay attention to my arguments.

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If only you would be altogether silent!(A)
    For you, that would be wisdom.(B)
Hear now my argument;
    listen to the pleas of my lips.(C)

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“Shouldn’t someone answer this torrent of words?
    Is a person proved innocent just by a lot of talking?

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“Are all these words to go unanswered?(A)
    Is this talker to be vindicated?(B)

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“How long will you go on like this?
    You sound like a blustering wind.

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“How long will you say such things?(A)
    Your words are a blustering wind.(B)

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17 For in death the wicked cause no trouble,
    and the weary are at rest.

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17 There the wicked cease from turmoil,(A)
    and there the weary are at rest.(B)

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Let the darkness and utter gloom claim that day for its own.
    Let a black cloud overshadow it,
    and let the darkness terrify it.
Let that night be blotted off the calendar,
    never again to be counted among the days of the year,
    never again to appear among the months.

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May gloom and utter darkness(A) claim it once more;
    may a cloud settle over it;
    may blackness overwhelm it.
That night—may thick darkness(B) seize it;
    may it not be included among the days of the year
    nor be entered in any of the months.

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