Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! 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.
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 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 you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers. 5 Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he is silent, is counted wise, and he who shuts his lips is counted as a man of understanding.
Job 13:13
Be quiet. Let me alone so that I may speak, and let come on me what may.
Job 11:3
Should your lies make men silent? And will you mock and no one make you ashamed?
Job 16:3
Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you should answer?
Job 18:2
Until when will you set a snare for words? Understand, and afterwards we will speak.
Job 19:2
How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words?
Job 21:2-3
Listen carefully to my speech, and let this be your comfort.
Job 32:1
And these three men ceased from answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice by the multitude of words.
Amos 5:13
So the understanding ones shall keep silent in that 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.