Parallel Verses
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.
A Conservative Version
O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.
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
As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
5
And that it would become your wisdom!
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Job 13:13
"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
Job 11:3
Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
Job 16:3
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 18:2
"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
Job 19:2
"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
Job 21:2-3
"Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.
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 much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
Amos 5:13
Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
James 1:19
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;