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
That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value.
5
And that it would become your wisdom!
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he is silent is counted wise, and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Job 13:13
Listen to me, and I will speak, and afterward let come on me what will.
Job 11:3
Should thy lies make men be silent? Shalt thou mock, and shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer?
Job 18:2
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and afterwards we will speak.
Job 19:2
How long will ye anguish my soul and break me in pieces with words?
Job 21:2-3
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be instead of 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 out of much preoccupation comes the dream, and the voice of the fool out of a multitude of words.
Amos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time.
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;