Job 13:5
I wish/desire that you would be silent; that would be the wisest thing that you could do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
In Context
6Listen to what I will say to you now; listen while I am saying what is true about myself.
Cross References
Job 11:3Job, ◄should your babbling cause us to be silent?/your babbling should certainly not cause us to be silent.► [RHQ] When you make fun of us, shall no one rebuke you and cause you to be ashamed?
Job 16:3Will your speeches, which are only hot air, never end [RHQ]? Eliphaz, what bothers/irritates you so much that you continue replying to me?
Job 19:2“How long will you three torment me and crush my spirit by saying to me that I am wicked?
Job 32:1Then those three men stopped answering Job, because they could not convince Job that he was wrong in claiming that he had not done anything that was wrong.
Proverbs 17:28People may think that foolish people who do not say anything are wise; if foolish people ◄do not say anything/keep their mouths shut►, others will think that they are very intelligent.
Amos 5:13This is a time when many people do evil things, so people who have good sense say nothing when they hear about such things being done.
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 →