Other translations
American Standard Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
Darby Bible Translation
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men..
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
God's Word
I wish you would keep silent. For you, that would be wisdom.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
If only you would shut up and let that be your wisdom!
International Standard Version
I wish you'd all just shut up. Then at least you would appear to be wise.
NET Bible
If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
New American Standard Bible
"O that you would be completely silent, And that it would become your wisdom!
New International Version
If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
New Living Translation
If only you could be silent! That's the wisest thing you could do.
Webster's Bible Translation
O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom.
The World English Bible
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
EasyEnglish Bible
It would be better if you said nothing. That would be a wise thing for you to do.
Young‘s Literal Translation
O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
New Life Version
If only you would be quiet, and that would show your wisdom!
The Voice Bible
Would that you were totally silent. At least that would make you seem wise.
Living Bible
Oh, please be quiet! That would be your highest wisdom.
New Catholic Bible
“Oh, if only you would be completely silent! For you, that would be regarded as wisdom.
Legacy Standard Bible
O that you would be completely silent, And that it would become your wisdom!
Jubilee Bible 2000
O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you instead of wisdom.
Christian Standard Bible
If only you would shut up and let that be your wisdom!
Amplified Bible © 1954
Oh, that you would altogether hold your peace! Then you would evidence your wisdom and you might pass for wise men.
New Century Version
I wish you would just stop talking; then you would really be wise!
The Message
“Yes, I’ve seen all this with my own eyes, heard and understood it with my very own ears. Everything you know, I know, so I’m not taking a backseat to any of you. I’m taking my case straight to God Almighty; I’ve had it with you—I’m going directly to God. You graffiti my life with lies. You’re a bunch of pompous quacks! I wish you’d shut your mouths— silence is your only claim to wisdom.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
I wish you would shut up completely. For you, that would be wisdom!
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!
Good News Translation®
Say nothing, and someone may think you are wise!
Wycliffe Bible
And I would, that ye were still, that ye were guessed to be wise men. (And I wish, that ye held your peace, so that ye could be thought to be wise.)
Contemporary English Version
The wisest thing you can do is to keep quiet
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!
Common English Bible © 2011
Would that you were completely quiet; that would be your wisdom.
Amplified Bible © 2015
“Oh, that you would be completely silent, And that silence would be your wisdom!
English Standard Version Anglicised
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Oh, that you would be altogether silent; that for you would be wisdom!
New American Standard Bible
Oh that you would be completely silent, And that it would become your wisdom!
The Expanded Bible
I wish you would just ·stop talking [shut up]; then you would really be wise [Prov. 17:28]!
Tree of Life Version
If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
Revised Standard Version
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
New International Reader's Version
I wish you would keep your mouths shut! Then people would think you were wise.
BRG Bible
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Complete Jewish Bible
I wish you would just stay silent; for you, that would be wisdom!
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!
Orthodox Jewish Bible
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your chochmah.
Names of God Bible
I wish you would keep silent. For you, that would be wisdom.
Modern English Version
Oh, that you would altogether hold your peace, and it would be your wisdom!
Easy-to-Read Version
I wish you would just be quiet. That would be the wisest thing you could do.
International Children’s Bible
I wish you would just stop talking. Then you would really be wise!
Lexham English Bible
O that you would keep completely silent, and that it would become wisdom for you.
New International Version - UK
If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.