5 If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!
Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.
You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;
Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
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Commentary on Job 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for,
Job 13:1-12
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
Job 13:13-22
Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable.
Job 13:23-28
Here,