Job 13:5

Job chapter 13 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.

Context

v.4But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

v.5This passage

v.6Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Amos 5:13

    Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

  • Job 19:2

    How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

  • Job 32:1

    So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

  • Proverbs 17:28

    Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; When he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent.

  • Job 13:13

    Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

  • James 1:19

    Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: