Parallel Verses
NET Bible
If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be 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 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!
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, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians! 5 If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom. 6 "Listen now to my argument, and be attentive to my lips' contentions.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool who remains silent is considered wise, and the one who holds his tongue is deemed discerning.
Job 13:13
"Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.
Job 11:3
Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?
Job 16:3
Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 18:2
"How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.
Job 19:2
"How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
Job 21:2-3
"Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.
Job 32:1
So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.
Amos 5:13
For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.
James 1:19
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.