Job 13:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

Job 13:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Job 13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Job 11:3
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Ambition Arrogance Bigotry Conceit Haughtiness Heart

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends. I. He comes up with them as one that understood the matter in dispute as well as they, and did not need to be taught by them, Job 13:1, 2. They compelled him, as the Corinthians did Paul, to commend himself and his own knowledge, yet not in a way of self-applause, but of self-justification. All he had before said his eye ha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. (Pr 17:28). The Arabs say, “The wise are dumb; silence is wisdom.”