When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, and answer no more?

Therefore because I have waited, and they have not spoken : they stood, and answered no more :

And I waited, for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;-

When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

And I have waited, but they do not speak, For they have stood still, They have not answered any more.)

And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers?

Therefore, because I have waited and they have not been speaking, for they stood firm and did not respond at all,

When I had waited - I waited to hear if they had any thing to reply to Job; and when I found them in effect speechless, then I ventured to come forward.

When one had waited,.... To observe whether they would make any reply to what he had said, or any objection to his engaging in the controversy:
for they spake not; were as mute as fishes:
but stood still; like statues, had no power to move, neither to sit down nor to depart, but were as if all life, sense, and motion, were gone from them:
and answered no more; or not at all; for it does not appear that they had given him any answer before, as well as not now.