"Answer the words"

1. Prov. 22: 21
     21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
2. Alma 14: 19
     19 And it came to pass that the judge stood before them, and said: Why do ye not answer the words of this people? Know ye not that I have power to deliver you up unto the flames? And he commanded them to speak; but they answered nothing.