Job 11:2
Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid qui multa loquitur, non et audiet ? aut vir verbosus justificabitur ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ὁ τὰ πολλὰ λέγων καὶ ἀντακούσεται· ἢ καὶ ὁ εὔλαλος οἴεται εἶναι δίκαιος;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֲרֹ֣ב דְּ֭בָרִים לֹ֣א יֵעָנֶ֑ה וְאִם אִ֖ישׁ שְׂפָתַ֣יִם יִצְדָּֽק
Haydock's commentary
Much. The speeches of Job seemed tedious to him, because he was not of his opinion. (Menochius)
He might have applied to himself and his friends the fault of talking too much, as they all spoke many things to no purpose, whereas Job went straight to the point. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter VIII. Philosophy is Knowledge Given by God
Now the Gnostic must be erudite. And since the Greeks say that Protagoras having led the way, the opposing of one argument by another was invented, it is fitting that something be said with reference to arguments of this sort. For Scripture says, “He that says much, shall also hear in his turn.” And who shall understand a parable of the Lord, but the wise, the intelligent, and he that loves his Lord? Let such a man be faithful; let him be capable of uttering his knowledge; let him be wise in the discrimination of words; let him be dexterous in action; let him be pure. “The greater he seems to be, the more humble should he be,” says Clement in the Epistle to the Corinthians, “such an one as is capable of complying with the precept, ‘And some pluck from the fire, and on others have compassion, making a difference,’”