Job 13:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Oh, that you would be altogether silent; that for you would be wisdom!

Cross References

Job 11:3

Shall your babblings keep others silent, and shall you deride and no one give rebuke?

Job 13:13

Be silent! Let me alone that I may speak, no matter what happens to me.

Job 13:6

Hear now my argument and listen to the accusations from my lips.

Job 16:3

Is there no end to windy words? What sickness makes you rattle on?

Job 18:2

When will you put an end to words? Reflect, and then we can have discussion.

Job 19:2

How long will you afflict my spirit, grind me down with words?

Job 21:5

Look at me and be appalled, put your hands over your mouths.

Job 32:1

Then the three men ceased to answer Job, because in his own eyes he was in the right.

Job 32:16

Must I wait? Now that they speak no more, and have ceased to make reply,

Proverbs 17:28

Even fools, keeping silent, are considered wise; if they keep their lips closed, intelligent.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

When you make a vow to God, delay not its fulfillment. For God has no pleasure in fools; fulfill what you have vowed.

Amos 5:13

(Therefore at this time the wise are struck dumb for it is an evil time.)

James 1:19

Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,