Verse 5
Job 13:5
Geneva Bible
5
Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִֽי יִ֭תֵּן הַחֲרֵ֣שׁ תַּחֲרִישׁ֑וּ/ן וּ/תְהִ֖י לָ/כֶ֣ם לְ/חָכְמָֽה
English Translation
Who will give the silent to be silent, and it will be wisdom for you?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
Done.
Sign in to save notes and annotations.
Chapter 13 Context
1
Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
Focus ↗
2
I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.
Focus ↗
3
But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God (Elohim).
Focus ↗
4
For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
Focus ↗
5
Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
6
Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.
Focus ↗
7
Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
Focus ↗
8
Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God (Elohim)?
Focus ↗
9
Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
Focus ↗
10
He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.
Focus ↗
11
Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
Focus ↗
12
Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
Focus ↗
13
Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
Focus ↗
14
Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?
Focus ↗
15
Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
Focus ↗
16
He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
Focus ↗
17
Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.
Focus ↗
18
Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.
Focus ↗
19
Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
Focus ↗
20
But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
Focus ↗
21
Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
Focus ↗
22
Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
Focus ↗
23
Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
Focus ↗
24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
Focus ↗
25
Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
Focus ↗
26
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
Focus ↗
27
Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the pr...
Focus ↗
28
Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Focus ↗