Holy Scripture

Job 32:16

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“Because therefore I have waited, and they have not spoken, they have stood, and have answered no more. Wise men are accustomed to make it the limit of their speaking, to speak so far as to silence their adversaries. For they wish not to display their own powers, but to put down the teachers of heresy. But after it is…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII

Source: Septuagint

Original

16I waited (for I had not spoken), Because they stood still, they answered not.

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In context

14And ye have commissioned a man to speak such words.

15They were afraid, they answered no longer; They gave up their speaking.

— Job 32:16 —

17And Elihu continued and said, I will again speak,

18for I am full of words, For the spirit of my belly destroys me.

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