Job 13:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The wisest thing you can do is to keep quiet

Cross References

Job 11:3

Your words have silenced others and made them ashamed; now it is only right for you to be put to shame.

Job 13:13

Be quiet while I speak, then say what you will.

Job 13:6

and listen to my argument.

Job 16:3

So why don't you keep quiet? What's bothering you?

Job 18:2

How long will you talk? Be sensible! Let us speak.

Job 19:2

How long will you torture me with your words?

Job 21:5

Just looking at me is enough to make you sick,

Job 32:1

Finally, these three men stopped arguing with Job, because he refused to admit that he was guilty.

Job 32:16

But am I to remain silent, just because you have stopped speaking?

Proverbs 17:28

Even fools seem clever when they are quiet.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

If you keep thinking about something, you will dream about it. If you talk too much, you will say the wrong thing.

Amos 5:13

Times are so evil that anyone with good sense will keep quiet.

James 1:19

My dear friends, you should be quick to listen and slow to speak or to get angry.