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Job Chapter 13 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Job 13:5

Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
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BBE Job 13:5

If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!
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DARBY Job 13:5

Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
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KJV Job 13:5

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
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WBT Job 13:5

O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom.
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WEB Job 13:5

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
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YLT Job 13:5

O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! The friends had "held their peace" for seven days after their arrival (Job 2:13). Oh that they would have held it altogether! Their words had done nothing but exasperate and goad almost to madness. There is a mournful pathos in Job's entreates to them to be silent (comp ver. 13). And it should be your wisdom. "Speech," it has been said, "is silvern, silence is golden." No doubt" there is a time for everything... a time to keep silence, and a time to speak" (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7); nor is the rule of La Trappe altogether a wise one. But probably ten times as much harm is done in the world by speaking as by keeping silence. "Words for God" need especial care and caution. If they do not do good, the harm that they may do is incalculable.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) O that ye would altogether hold your peace! is singularly like the sentiment of Proverbs 17:28. Their wisdom will consist in listening to his wisdom rather than displaying their own folly.