Giobbe 13:5

5 Oh se serbaste il silenzio! esso vi conterebbe come sapienza.

Giobbe 13:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 13:5

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 comfort of his afflicted soul, but the reverse; and therefore he could have wished they had never broke silence, but continued as they were the first seven days of their visit; and now, since they had spoken, and had done no good by speaking, but hurt, he desires for the future they would be silent, and say no more:

and it should be your wisdom:
it would be the greatest evidence of it they could give; they had shown none by speaking; it would be a proof of some in them, should they hold their peace; a very biting expression this see ( Proverbs 17:28 ) .

Giobbe 13:5 In-Context

3 Ma io vorrei parlare con l’Onnipotente, avrei caro di ragionar con Dio;

4 giacché voi siete de’ fabbri di menzogne, siete tutti quanti de’ medici da nulla.

5 Oh se serbaste il silenzio! esso vi conterebbe come sapienza.

6 Ascoltate, vi prego, quel che ho da rimproverarvi; state attenti alle ragioni delle mie labbra!

7 Volete dunque difendere Iddio parlando iniquamente? sostener la sua causa con parole di frode?