Job 13:5
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
In Context
4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Cross References
Job 11:3Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 19:2“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
Job 32:1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Proverbs 17:28Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
Amos 5:13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a 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 →