Job 13:5
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Atque utinam taceretis, ut putaremini esse sapientes.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἴη δὲ ὑμῖν κωφεῦσαι, καὶ ἀποβήσεται ὑμῖν σοφία.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מִֽי יִ֭תֵּן הַחֲרֵ֣שׁ תַּחֲרִישׁ֑וּן וּתְהִ֖י לָכֶ֣ם לְחָכְמָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Men. Proverbs xvii. 28. If you had been silent, you might still have had the reputation of wisdom. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.