What! Is there any reason in vain words? Or what will hinder you from answering?

How long will you continue? Gain understanding, and afterward we also may speak.

A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.

By a multitude of words you shall not escape sin, but if you refrain your lips you will be prudent.

And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What does this seed-picker wish to say?" But others [said], "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

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