Job 13:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your wisdom.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ O that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your wisdom.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Oh, that you would altogether hold your peace! Then you would evidence your wisdom and you might pass for wise men.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.

Common English Bible

⁵ Would that you were completely quiet; that would be your wisdom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.

Job 13:5 Cross References

Job 11:3

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Job 13:13

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Job 13:6

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Job 16:3

Shall vain words have an end? Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

Job 18:2

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? Mark, and afterward we will speak.

Job 19:2

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Job 21:5

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Job 32:16

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

Proverbs 17:28

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

James 1:19

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: