16When I had waited,(for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
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O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)Three things here apologize for Elihu’s interposing as he does in this controversy which had already been canvassed by such acute and learned disputants:— 1. That the stage was clear, and he did not break in upon any of the managers on either side: They were amazed (Job 32:15); they stood still, and answered no more , Job 32:16. They not only left off speaking themselves, but they stood still, to…
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