Job 13:13

Job 13:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
• New International Version (NIV)“Keep silent and let me speak; then let come to me what may.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, Then let come on me what may!

Context of Job 13:13

11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you? 12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay. Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will. 14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand? 15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

Job 13:13 word by word

הַחֲרִ֣ישׁוּ מִ֭מֶּנִּי וַאֲדַבְּרָה־אָ֑נִי וְיַעֲבֹ֖ר עָלַ֣י מָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• speakדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696

Cross-references for Job 13:13

• Job 13:5Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
• Job 7:11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 21:3Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
• Job 6:9Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
• Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

Commentaries on Job 13:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Hold your peace - You have perverted righteousness and truth, and your pleadings are totally irrelevant to the case; you have traveled out of the road; you have left law and justice behind you; it is high time that you should have done. Let come on me what will - I will now defend myself against you, and leave the cause to its issue.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Hold your peace - Margin, Be silent from me; see Job 13:5. It is possible that Job may have perceived in them some disposition to interrupt him in a rude manner in reply to the severe remarks which he had made, and he asked the privilege, therefore, of being permitted to go on, and to say what he intended, let come what would. And let come on me what will - Anything, whether reproaches from you, or additional sufferings from the hand of God. Allow me to…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-22Verses 13-22 Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Temporal salvation he little expected, but of his eternal salvation he was very confident; that God would not only be his Saviour to make him happy, but his salvation, in the sight and enjoyment of whom he should be happy. He knew himself not to be a…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. Job would wish to be spared their speeches, so as to speak out all his mind as to his wretchedness (Job 13:14), happen what will.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 13:13

• Persecution
• Self-Righteousness

In the dictionaries

• Dread
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Commentaries on Job 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings