Job 13:5
If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
In Context
4But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.
6Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.
Cross References
Job 11:3Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
Job 16:3May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Job 19:2How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
Job 32:1So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.
Proverbs 17:28Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
Amos 5:13So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time.
Matthew Henry on Job 13:2-13
Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for… Read the whole commentary →