Job 13:5
But would that you⌃ were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
In Context
4But you⌃ are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.
6But hear you⌃ the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
Cross References
Job 11:3Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer you?
Job 16:3What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering?
Job 19:2How long will you⌃ vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.
Job 32:1And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.
Proverbs 17:28Wisdom shall be imputed to a fool who asks after wisdom: and he who holds his peace shall seem to be sensible.
Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.
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 →