Job 18:2
New Living Translation
2 “How long before you stop talking?
Speak sense if you want us to answer!
James 1:19
New Living Translation
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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Proverbs 18:13
New Living Translation
13 Spouting off before listening to the facts
is both shameful and foolish.
Job 33:1
New Living Translation
Elihu Presents His Case against Job
33 “Listen to my words, Job;
pay attention to what I have to say.
Job 21:2
New Living Translation
2 “Listen closely to what I am saying.
That’s one consolation you can give me.
Job 16:2-3
New Living Translation
2 “I have heard all this before.
What miserable comforters you are!
3 Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air?
What makes you keep on talking?
Job 13:5-6
New Living Translation
5 If only you could be silent!
That’s the wisest thing you could do.
6 Listen to my charge;
pay attention to my arguments.
Job 11:2
New Living Translation
2 “Shouldn’t someone answer this torrent of words?
Is a person proved innocent just by a lot of talking?
Job 8:2
New Living Translation
2 “How long will you go on like this?
You sound like a blustering wind.
Job 3:17
New Living Translation
17 For in death the wicked cause no trouble,
and the weary are at rest.
Job 3:5-6
New Living Translation
5 Let the darkness and utter gloom claim that day for its own.
Let a black cloud overshadow it,
and let the darkness terrify it.
6 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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