Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would 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.
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.
Interlinear
Nathan
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech Continues
4 And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you, 5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom. 6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
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Cross References
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!
Job 13:13
Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
Job 11:3
Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!
Job 16:3
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
Job 18:2
When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
Job 19:2
Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
Job 21:2-3
Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.
Job 32:1
And these three men cease from answering Job, for he is righteous in his own eyes,
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
Amos 5:13
Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it is.
James 1:19
So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,