Job 13:5

Revised Version 1885

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

Cross References

Job 11:3

Should thy boastings 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 wilt.

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 provoketh thee that thou answerest?

Job 18:2

How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards 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

And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, and answer no more?

Proverbs 17:28

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: When he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For a dream cometh with a multitude of business; and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

Amos 5:13

Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

James 1:19

Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: