Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.
New American Standard Bible
And that it would become your wisdom!
King James Version
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Holman Bible
and let that be your wisdom!
International Standard Version
I wish you'd all just shut up. Then at least you would appear to be wise.
American Standard Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
Amplified
“Oh, that you would be completely silent,
And that silence would be your wisdom!
Bible in Basic English
If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!
Darby Translation
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
Julia Smith Translation
Who will give silence? Ye shall be silent, and it shall be to you for wisdom.
King James 2000
O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{O that} you would keep completely silent, and [that] it would become wisdom for you.
Modern King James verseion
Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!
NET Bible
If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
New Heart English Bible
Oh that you would be completely silent. Then you would be wise.
The Emphasized Bible
Oh that ye would, altogether held your peace, and it should serve you for wisdom!
Webster
O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom.
World English Bible
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
Youngs Literal Translation
O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
Interlinear
Nathan
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech Continues
4 But ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is considered wise. When he shuts his lips, he is prudent.
Job 13:13
Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job 11:3
Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?
Job 18:2
How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
Job 19:2
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job 21:2-3
Hear diligently my speech, And let this be your consolations.
Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
Amos 5:13
Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.