Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Who will give silence? Ye shall be silent, and it shall be to you for 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.
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.
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 And on the contrary, ye devise falsehood; physicians all of you for nothing. 5 Who will give silence? Ye shall be silent, and it shall be to you for wisdom. 6 Hear now my proof, and attend. to the pleadings of my lips.
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Cross References
Proverbs 17:28
Also the foolish one being silent shall be thought wise: and he shutting his lips, understanding.
Job 13:13
Be silent from me and I will speak what shall pass upon me.
Job 11:3
Shall thy empty talks cause men to be silent? and wilt thou deride and none making ashamed?
Job 16:3
Was there an end to words of wind? or what will provoke thee that thou wilt answer?
Job 18:2
How long will ye set an end to words? Ye shall understand, and afterwards we will speak.
Job 19:2
How long will ye, grieve my soul, and crush me with words?
Job 21:2-3
Hearing, hear ye my speech, and this shall be your consolations.
Job 32:1
And these three men will cease from answering Job, for he is just in his eyes.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For the dream came in the multitude of labor; and the voice of the foolish one in the multitude of words.
Amos 5:13
For this the prudent one shall be silent in that time, for it is an evil time.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: