And when it was told Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lift up his voice and called, and said unto them, "Hearken unto me you citizens of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

Wherefore do ye lay out your money, for the thing that feedeth not, and spend your labour about the thing that satisfieth you not? But hearken rather unto me, and ye shall eat of the best, and your soul shall have her pleasure in plenteousness.

Wherefore we ought to give the more heed to the things which we have heard, lest we perish.

Let this be

Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? With thee is a lying word.

"I have oft times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the sort of you.

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Therefore hear my words, and ponder the sentence of my lips.

Mark well, O Job, and hear me: hold thee still until I have spoken.