KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 13:5–6
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Job 13:5
5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
5O that you would altogether hold your peace, & it should be your wisdome.
Job 13:6
6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
6Heare now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 13:5
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
altogether
Wholly; entirely; completely; without exception.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
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Freedom from war, strife, disturbance, or inward trouble; quietness, reconciliation, safety, or well-being, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Sound judgment and the right use of knowledge; skill, discernment, or understanding.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 13:6
To perceive by the ear; to listen, attend, understand, or obey, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Thinking by drawing conclusions from facts or principles; also arguing, debating, or discussing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To listen attentively, give heed, or obey.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Arguments or appeals made in presenting a cause.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study28Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
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Open the full verse study19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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Open the full verse study3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
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Open the full verse study13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
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Open the full verse study13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
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Open the full verse study3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
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Open the full verse study3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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Open the full verse study2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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Open the full verse study2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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Open the full verse study2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
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Open the full verse study1SO these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study2Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
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Open the full verse study2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
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Open the full verse study1WHEREFORE, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
2Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
3My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
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Open the full verse study6Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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