Job 13:5 - New Revised Standard Version

⁵ If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!

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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 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: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger;