King James Version
Job 13:5 in the King James Version says “O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.” — study this verse from Job chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.”
Job 13:5 · KJV
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
KJV Study — Public Domain
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“hold your peace”
H2790to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad
“hold your peace”
H2790to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
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