5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
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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,