Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!
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.
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, ye are workmasters of lies, and unprofitable physicians altogether. 5 Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men! 6 Therefore hear my words, and ponder the sentence of my lips.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 17:28
Yea, a very fool, when he holdeth his tongue, is counted wise; and to have understanding, when he shutteth his lips.
Job 13:13
"Hold your tongues now, and let me speak, for there is something come into my mind.
Job 11:3
Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again?
Job 16:3
Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say?
Job 18:2
"When will ye make an end of your words? Mark well, and consider, we will speak also.
Job 19:2
"How long will ye vex my mind, and trouble me with words?
Job 21:2-3
"O hear my words, and amend yourselves.
Job 32:1
So these three men would strive no more with Job, because he held himself a righteous man.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For where much carefulness is, there are many dreams: and where many words are, there men may hear fools.
Amos 5:13
Therefore the wise must now be fain to hold his tongue, so wicked a time is it.
James 1:19
Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.