Job 13:5
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
In Context
4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Cross References
Job 11:3Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Job 19:2How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces 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 holdeth his peace, is counted wise: when he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent.
Amos 5:13Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence 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 →