Job 13:5

Amos 5:13; Ecclesiastes 5:3; James 1:19; Job 11:3; Job 13:13; Job 16:3; Job 18:2; Job 19:2; Job 21:2; Job 21:3; Job 32:1; Proverbs 17:28

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Albert 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,...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job has shown that he can speak of God's working in the world; the friends, however, offer an apology for God, which He Himself must reject. I am not...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

O. Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom - In Proverbs 17:28 we have...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. ( Proverbs 17:28 , "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is count...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Third Speech (continued) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his tr...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! is singularly like the sentiment of Proverbs 17:28 . Their wisdom will consist in listening to his wis...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which mu...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Though He Slay Me” Job 13:1-28 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12 . Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Befo...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you....
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 comf...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Ver. 5. O that you would altogether hold your peace ] Heb. In being si...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ye are forgers of lies That is, authors of false doctrine, namely, that great afflictions are peculiar to hypocrites and wicked men. All physician...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye h...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reply to Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 L...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For then your ignorance and folly had been concealed, which is now manifest. Compare Proverbs 17:28 .
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends ( Job 13:1-2 )....
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 13:1 , Job 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1-18 . are closely connected with Job 12:1-18 ; forming the natural te...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Defends God Against the Suspicion of Arbitrariness
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Oh, that ye would altogether hold your peace! He would much prefer their saying nothing at all than to have them make matters worse by their bungling...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 13:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 13:5