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


In Context

2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

3 |Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

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

6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:5And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men..

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 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.