⁵ O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

³ Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

⁴ I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

² Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

¹⁴ Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

²³ A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

³ He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.