Job 13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Cross-references
In Job 13:13, Job demands silence to speak, fulfilling his wish in 13:5 that his friends would keep silent as wisdom.
In Job 11:3, Zophar rejects holding peace, accusing Job of lies — contrasting Job's wish for silence as wisdom.
In Job 16:3, Job again laments vain words, echoing his wish that silence would be wisdom.
In Job 19:2, Job laments being broken by words, reinforcing the call for silence in Job 13:5 as wiser.
In Job 32:1, the friends finally cease answering Job, directly fulfilling his wish for silence.
In Job 15:17, Eliphaz insists on speaking, directly opposing Job's desire for silence in 13:5.
In Job 32:16, Elihu notes the friends finally fall silent, fulfilling Job's wish in 13:5 for them to hold their peace.
In Job 16:2, Job calls his friends 'miserable comforters', reinforcing that their speech is worthless — the very reason he wished them silent.
In Job 15:3, Eliphaz questions reasoning with unprofitable talk, mirroring Job's view that silence is better than empty speech.
In Job 26:3, Job mocks Bildad's useless counsel, aligning with his earlier wish that the friends would be silent.
In Job 18:2, Bildad tells Job to stop his words — parallel desire for silence, though from the other side.
Proverbs 17:28 states that even a fool is counted wise when silent — directly paralleling Job 13:5's claim that silence is wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 5:3 says a fool's voice is known by many words, echoing the value of silence in Job 13:5.
Amos 5:13 advises silence in evil times, aligning with Job 13:5's call for silence as wisdom.
In James 1:19, being slow to speak echoes Job's wish for silence as wisdom. Both affirm the value of restraint in speech.