Verse 5

Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 17:28 : 28 Yea, a very foole when he holdeth his tongue is counted wise: and he that stoppeth his lippes is esteemed prudent.
  • Eccl 5:3 : 3 For where much carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: and where many wordes are, there men may heare fooles.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Wherfore my deare brethre, let euery man be swyft to heare, slowe to speake, slowe to wrath.
  • Job 13:13 : 13 Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Shall not vaine wordes come yet to an ende? Or what maketh thee bolde so to aunswere?
  • Job 18:2 : 2 When wyll ye make an ende of your wordes? Marke well, and then we wyll speake.
  • Job 19:2 : 2 How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?
  • Job 21:2-3 : 2 O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations, 3 Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on.
  • Job 32:1 : 1 So these three men ceassed to aunswere Iob, because he held him selfe a righteous man.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Shoulde thy lies make men holde their peace, and when thou mockest others shall no man make thee ashamed?
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therfore the wise shall kepe scilence in that time: for it is an euyll time.