God’s Word Translation
Job 13:15
15If God would kill me, I would have no hope ⌞left⌟. Nevertheless, I will defend my behavior to his face.
Job 13:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- New International Version (NIV)Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.
Context of Job 13:15
13Be quiet, because I want to speak. Let whatever may happen to me ⌞happen⌟! 14I am biting off more than I can chew and taking my life in my own hands. If God would kill me, I would have no hope ⌞left⌟. Nevertheless, I will defend my behavior to his face. 16This also will be my salvation because no godless person could face him. 17“Listen carefully to my words. Hear my declaration.
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הֵ֣ן יִ֭קְטְלֵנִי ל֣וֹ אֲיַחֵ֑ל אַךְ־דְּ֝רָכַ֗י אֶל־פָּנָ֥יו אוֹכִֽיחַ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:15
- Job 13:18I have prepared my case. I know that I will be declared righteous.
- Job 19:25But I know that my defender lives, and afterwards, he will rise on the earth.
- Job 23:10⌞I can’t find him⌟ because he knows the road I take. When he tests me, I’ll come out as pure as gold.
- Psalms 23:4Even though I walk through the dark valley of death, because you are with me, I fear no harm. Your rod and your staff give me courage.
- Proverbs 14:32A wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but even in his death a righteous person has a refuge.
- Romans 8:38I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can’t be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces
- Job 10:7You know I’m not guilty, but there is no one to rescue me from your hands.
- Job 16:17although my hands have done nothing violent, and my prayer is sincere.
- Job 23:4I would present ⌞my⌟ case to him. I would have a mouthful of arguments.
- Job 27:5It’s unthinkable for me to admit that you are right. Until I breathe my last breath, I will never give up my claim of integrity.
- Job 31:31“If the people who were in my tent had said, ‘We wish we had never filled ⌞our stomachs⌟ with his food’….
- Job 40:2“Will the person who finds fault with the Almighty correct him? Will the person who argues with God answer him?”
- 1 John 3:20Whenever our conscience condemns us, we will be reassured that God is greater than our conscience and knows everything.
Commentaries on Job 13:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Though he slay me - I have no dependence but God; I trust in him alone. Should he even destroy my life by this affliction, yet will I hope that when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. In the common printed Hebrew text we have איחל לא lo ayachel, I will Not hope; but the Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Chaldee have read לו lo, Him, instead of לא lo Not; with twenty-nine of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and the Complutensian and Antwerp Polyglots…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Though he slay me - “God may so multiply my sorrows and pains that I cannot survive them. I see that I may be exposed to increased calamities, yet I am willing to meet them. If in maintaining my own cause, and showing that I am not a hypocrite Job 13:16, it should so happen that my sufferings should be so increased that I should die, yet I will do it.” The word “slay,” or “kill,” here refers to temporal death. It has no reference to punishment in the…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. 1515. in him--So the margin or keri, reads. But the textual reading or chetib is "not," which agrees best with the context, and other passages wherein he says he has no hope (Job 6:11; 7:21; 10:20; 19:10). "Though He slay me, and I dare no more hope, yet I will maintain," &c., that is, "I desire to vindicate myself before Him," as not a hypocrite [Umbreit and Noyes].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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