My apologies – things got busy and I left putting these out; I’m not quite out of good quotes. Here’s another one:

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. (Job 13:5)

This reminds me of more modern phrase: “It’s better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and prove it.” It also reminds me of a verse in Proverbs: A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. (Prov 29:11)

If you remember the story of Job, he had a series of catastrophes occur; three friends of his visited him, and were just with him for a week, day & night. This action was probably their best; after that they started a conversion trying to work out why such terrible things had happened to Job. They weren’t such good friends in the conversation — one (Zophar) went so far as to tell Job that he deserved a greater punishment! (Job 11:6).