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Job 13:5

Job 13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

And that ye would altogether hold your peace,.... Since what they said of him was not true, nor anything to the purpose,…

Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! - You would show your wisdom by silence. Since you can say nothing that is…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Job 13:1-12

Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.

I. He comes up with them as one that…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

This verse is suggested by the last clause of the preceding their impotence to help was such that their silence would be…