Job 11:2
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2 “Should a multitude of words go unanswered,
and should one full of talk be vindicated?(A)
Proverbs 10:19
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19 When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but the prudent are restrained in speech.(A)
Job 18:2
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2 “How long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and then we shall speak.
James 1:19
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Hearing and Doing the Word
19 You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,(A)
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Acts 17:18
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18 Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this pretentious babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)
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Psalm 140:11
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11 Do not let the slanderer be established in the land;
let evil speedily hunt down the violent!(A)
Job 16:3
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3 Have windy words no limit?
Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?(A)
Job 8:2
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2 “How long will you say these things
and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
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