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Job 13:21
21Please stop punishing me. And stop causing me to be so afraid of you.
Job 13:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
- New International Version (NIV)Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.
- English Standard Version (ESV)withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Withdraw Your hand far from me, And let not the dread of You make me afraid.
Context of Job 13:21
19Nobody can show that I have done wrong things. If anyone can do that, I will be quiet. I will be ready to die. 20God, please do two things that will help me. If you do those things, I will no longer hide from you. Please stop punishing me. And stop causing me to be so afraid of you. 22Tell me to come and stand in front of you. Then I will answer you. Or allow me to speak first. Then you will reply to me. 23Tell me how many wrong things I have done. Show me what my sins are.
Read all of Job 13Job 13:21 word by word
כַּ֭פְּךָ מֵעָלַ֣י הַרְחַ֑ק וְ֝אֵ֥מָתְךָ֗ אַֽל־תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:21
- Job 10:20I will only live for a few more days. So leave me alone! Then I may be happy for a moment.
- Job 22:15Job, you must not continue to turn against God. That is the way that evil people lived long ago.
- Job 13:11His great power will frighten you. You will be very afraid of him.
- Job 33:7So you should not be afraid of me. I will not do anything to hurt you.
- Psalms 119:120I respect your great strength, so that my body shakes with fear. I am afraid of the laws by which you judge people.
Commentaries on Job 13:21
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21Withdraw thine hand far from me - Notes Job 9:34. The hand of God here is used to denote the calamity or affliction which Job was suffering. The meaning is, “Remove my affliction; restore me to health, and I will then enter on the argument in vindication of my cause. I am now oppressed, and broken down, and enfeebled by disease, and I cannot present it with the vigor which I might evince if I were in health.” And let not thy dread make me afraid - “Do not…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
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-21Job thought about finding a judge to remove God's burden from him (9:33–34). Eliphaz had encouraged Job to accept God's discipline (5:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. (See on Job 9:34 and see Psa 39:10).Read the comment
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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
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