Ibid. — Or is it troublesome to you, if you should speak? 4. The just do not return reproaches. — When wicked men utter reproachful words to others like themselves, they fall silent all the more quickly the sooner they hear said of themselves the very things they say to their hearers. But when they hurl reproachful words against good men, no trouble arises to those men from the reproach, because they speak against those who keep silence, nor are these compelled to hear what they are, since the just do not return reproaches, even while they are forced to hear what they are not. Well then is it said: Or is it troublesome to you, if you should speak? As if it were openly said to him: You speak all the more, the less you hear anything troublesome from me about your conduct. Whence also it is added: — Verse 4. — I too could speak like you.