Job 33:31
Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
BSB
ASV
Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will speak.
KJV
Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.
Eliu has uttered great and very powerful words. But it is a characteristic of every boastful person, that, while giving utterance to truths and mysteries, he suddenly blends with them, through pride of heart, some foolish and proud expressions. For he endeavours to please the world without, in that which he thinks with truth; and is soon despoiled of the truth, just as through haughtiness of pride he goes back from what is inward. For, because he seeks to be approved of outwardly as a man of learning, he loses inwardly the fulness of wisdom, in which he was instructed.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Job 13:6Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.
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“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.
Through
Job 18:2“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
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If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
He who answers a matter before he hears it—this is folly and disgrace to him.
“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
Through
Job 21:2“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
leads to
We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.