Ayub 13:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sekiranya kamu menutup mulut, itu akan dianggap kebijaksanaan dari padamu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sekiranya kamu menutup mulut, itu akan dianggap kebijaksanaan dari padamu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Mengapa kamu tiada berdiam dirimu sekali, supaya ia itu bagimu akan hikmat.

Contextual Overview

¹ Lo, all [this] haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it. ² What ye knowe, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior vnto you. ³ Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God. ⁴ As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether. ⁵ Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men. ⁶ Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes. ⁷ Wyll you speake wickedlie for gods [defence] and talke deceitfully for his [cause?] ⁸ Wyll ye accept the person of him? or wyll ye contende for God? ⁹ Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him. ¹⁰ He shall punishe you, and reproue you, if ye do secretly accept any person.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Oh that ye, Job 13:13, Job 11:3, Job 16:3, Job 18:2, Job 19:2, Job 21:2, Job 21:3, Job 32:1

and it: Proverbs 17:28, Ecclesiastes 5:3, Amos 5:13, James 1:19

Reciprocal: Job 6:25 - what doth Job 15:3 - he reason Job 15:8 - thou restrain Job 15:17 - hear me Job 16:2 - heard Job 26:3 - counselled Job 32:16 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 4:20
And Ada bare Iabel, which was the father of such as dwel in the tentes, and of such as haue cattell.

Genesis 25:27
And the boyes grewe, and Esau became a cunnyng hunter, and a wylde man: but Iacob was a perfect man, and dwelled in tentes.

Jeremiah 49:29
Their tentes and their flockes shall they take away, yea their hanginges and their vessels, their camels also shall they cary away with them: they shall crye to them, feare is on euery syde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And that ye would altogether hold your peace,.... Since what they said of him was not true, nor anything to the purpose, or that tended to the comfort of his afflicted soul, but the reverse; and therefore he could have wished they had never broke silence, but continued as they were the first seven days of their visit; and now, since they had spoken, and had done no good by speaking, but hurt, he desires for the future they would be silent, and say no more:

and it should be your wisdom: it would be the greatest evidence of it they could give; they had shown none by speaking; it would be a proof of some in them, should they hold their peace; a very biting expression this see Proverbs 17:28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! - You would show your wisdom by silence. Since you can say nothing that is adapted to give comfort, or to explain the true state of the case, it would be wise to say nothing; compare Proverbs 17:28 : “Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 13:5. Hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. — In Proverbs 17:28 we have the following apophtheym: "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips, a man of understanding." There is no reason to say that Solomon quotes from Job: I have already expressed my opinion that the high antiquity attributed to this book is perfectly unfounded, and that there is much more evidence that Solomon was its author, than there is that it was the composition of Moses. But, whenever Job lived, whether before Abraham or after Moses, the book was not written till the time of Solomon, if not later. But as to the saying in question, it is a general apophthegm, and may be found among the wise sayings of all nations.

I may observe here, that a silent man is not likely to be a fool; for a fool will be always prating, or, according to another adage, a fool's bolt is soon shot. The Latins have the same proverb: Vir sapit, qui pauca loquitur, "A wise man speaks little."