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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Proverbs 18:13
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13 If one gives answer before hearing,
it is folly and shame.(A)
Job 33:1
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Job 21:2
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2 “Listen carefully to my words,
and let this be your consolation.
Job 16:2-3
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2 “I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.
3 Have windy words no limit?
Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?(A)
Job 13:5-6
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5 If you would only keep silent,
that would be your wisdom!(A)
6 Hear now my reasoning,
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 11:2
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2 “Should a multitude of words go unanswered,
and should one full of talk be vindicated?(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?
Job 3:17
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17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary are at rest.(A)
Job 3:5-6
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5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
Let clouds settle upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.(A)
6 That night—let thick darkness seize it!
let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.(B)
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