Job 33:31

Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: