Job 13:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁵ If only you would shut up and let that be your wisdom!

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

Job 13:5 Tagairtí Cros

Job 11:3

Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to humiliate you?

Job 13:13

Be quiet,  and I will speak. Let whatever comes happen to me.

Job 13:6

Hear now my argument, and listen to my defence.

Job 16:3

Is there no end to your empty  ,  words? What provokes you that you continue testifying?

Job 18:2

How long until you stop talking? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

Job 19:2

How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

Job 21:5

Look at me and shudder; put your hand over your mouth.

Job 32:1

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

Job 32:16

Should I continue to wait now that they are silent, now that they stand there and no longer answer?

Proverbs 17:28

Even a fool is considered wise when he keeps silent  – discerning, when he seals his lips.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

Just as dreams accompany much labour, so also a fool’s voice comes with many words.

Amos 5:13

Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent  , at such a time, for the days are evil.

James 1:19

My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,