<p class="poetry">If only you would keep completely silent!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For you, that would be wisdom.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Will your idle talk<n id="1" /> reduce people to silence,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and will no one rebuke<n id="3" /> you when you mock?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even as I have seen,<n id="1" /> those who plow<n id="2" /> iniquity<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and those who sow trouble reap the same.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Teach<n id="1" /> me and I, for my part,<n id="2" /> will be silent;p> <p class="poetry">explain to me<n id="3" /> how I have been mistaken.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Refrain from talking<n id="1" /> with me so that<n id="2" /> I may speak;p> <p class="poetry">then let come to me<n id="3" /> what may.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Who<n id="1" /> will contend with me?p> <p class="poetry">If anyone can, I will be silent and die.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Pay attention, Job &#8211; listen to me;p> <p class="poetry">be silent, and I will speak.p>

<p class="poetry">If not, you listen to me;p> <p class="poetry">be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.&#8221;p>

and a messenger came to Job, saying, &#8220;The oxen were plowing<n id="1" /> and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

<p class="poetry">I will not keep silent about its limbs,p> <p class="poetry">and the extent of its might,p> <p class="poetry">and the grace of its arrangement.<n id="1" />p>