Job 13:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!

Cross References

Job 11:3

Should your babble put others to silence, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

Job 13:13

“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

Job 13:6

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

Job 16:3

Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?

Job 18:2

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we shall speak.

Job 19:2

“How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?

Job 21:5

Look at me and be appalled, 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

And am I to wait because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more?

Proverbs 17:28

Even fools who keep silent are considered wise; when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For dreams come with many cares, and a fool’s voice with many words.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

James 1:19

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,