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


In Context

2 According to your knowledge I have known — also I. I am not fallen more than you.

3 Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

4 And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,

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

6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

7 For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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