Job 13:5
I wish you would all be quiet! That would be the wisest thing for you to do.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
In Context
4As for you, you cover things up by telling lies! You are all like doctors who can't heal anyone!
6Listen to my argument and pay attention to what I have to say.
Cross References
Job 11:3Should all your babbling force people to keep quiet? When you mock, shouldn't someone make you feel ashamed?
Job 16:3Will your windy speeches never cease? What's bothering you that you have to answer me?
Job 19:2“How long will you go on tormenting me? How long will you go on crushing me with words?
Job 32:1Job's three friends stopped responding to him because he kept on protesting his innocence.
Proverbs 17:28Even stupid people who keep quiet are considered wise; if they don't say anything they appear intelligent.
Amos 5:13So smart people keep quiet in such evil times.
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 →