Job 13:5
Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
In Context
4For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
6Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.
Cross References
Job 11:3Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
Job 16:3Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?
Job 19:2Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
Job 32:1So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he esteemed himselfe iust.
Proverbs 17:28Euen a foole (when he holdeth his peace) is counted wise, and hee that stoppeth his lips, prudent.
Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent shall keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill 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 →