Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

Bible References

General references

Job 13:5
Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!
Proverbs 17:28
Yea, a very fool, when he holdeth his tongue, is counted wise; and to have understanding, when he shutteth his lips.
Amos 5:13
Therefore the wise must now be fain to hold his tongue, so wicked a time is it.
James 1:19
Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.