5And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men..


In Context

2 According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.

3 But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

4 Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

5 And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men..

6 Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

7 Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

Job 13:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:5If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:5O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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