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Job 13:5
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If only you would shut upand let that be your wisdom!
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
I wish you would just stop talking; then you would really be wise!
If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
"Oh, that you would be completely silent, And that silence would be your wisdom!
"Oh that you would be completely silent, And that it would become your wisdom!
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
O that you would be completely silent,And that it would become your wisdom!
If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
The wisest thing you can do is to keep quiet
I wish you would just stay silent; for you, that would be wisdom!
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
I wish you would just be quiet. That would be the wisest thing you could do.
O that you would altogether keep silent! And it would serve you for wisdom.
Say nothing, and someone may think you are wise!
O that you would keep completely silent, and that it would become wisdom for you.
Oh that you would stop speaking entirely; and it would be your wisdom!
Wolde God ye kepte youre tonge, that ye might be taken for wyse men.
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom.
O that you would altogether hold your peace, & it should be your wisdome.
Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men.
But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
And `Y wolde that ye weren stille, that ye weren gessid to be wise men.
Oh that you would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom.
Oh, that you would be silent, And it would be your wisdom!
If only you could be silent! That's the wisest thing you could do.
If only you would be quiet, and that would show your wisdom!
If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!
Oh that ye would, altogether held your peace, and it should serve you for wisdom!
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
"O that you would be completely silent, And that it would become your wisdom!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Oh that ye, Job 13:13, Job 11:3, Job 16:3, Job 18:2, Job 19:2, Job 21:2, Job 21:3, Job 32:1
and it: Proverbs 17:28, Ecclesiastes 5:3, Amos 5:13, James 1:19
Reciprocal: Job 6:25 - what doth Job 15:3 - he reason Job 15:8 - thou restrain Job 15:17 - hear me Job 16:2 - heard Job 26:3 - counselled Job 32:16 - General
Cross-References
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And that ye would altogether hold your peace,.... Since what they said of him was not true, nor anything to the purpose, or that tended to the comfort of his afflicted soul, but the reverse; and therefore he could have wished they had never broke silence, but continued as they were the first seven days of their visit; and now, since they had spoken, and had done no good by speaking, but hurt, he desires for the future they would be silent, and say no more:
and it should be your wisdom: it would be the greatest evidence of it they could give; they had shown none by speaking; it would be a proof of some in them, should they hold their peace; a very biting expression this see Proverbs 17:28.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! - You would show your wisdom by silence. Since you can say nothing that is adapted to give comfort, or to explain the true state of the case, it would be wise to say nothing; compare Proverbs 17:28 : “Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 13:5. Hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. — In Proverbs 17:28 we have the following apophtheym: "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips, a man of understanding." There is no reason to say that Solomon quotes from Job: I have already expressed my opinion that the high antiquity attributed to this book is perfectly unfounded, and that there is much more evidence that Solomon was its author, than there is that it was the composition of Moses. But, whenever Job lived, whether before Abraham or after Moses, the book was not written till the time of Solomon, if not later. But as to the saying in question, it is a general apophthegm, and may be found among the wise sayings of all nations.
I may observe here, that a silent man is not likely to be a fool; for a fool will be always prating, or, according to another adage, a fool's bolt is soon shot. The Latins have the same proverb: Vir sapit, qui pauca loquitur, "A wise man speaks little."
