God’s Word Translation
Job 13:21
21Stop oppressing me. Don’t let your terror frighten me.
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
19Who can make a case against me? If someone could, I’d be silent and die. 20“Please don’t do two things to me so that I won’t have to hide from you: Stop oppressing me. Don’t let your terror frighten me. 22Then call, and I’ll answer. Otherwise, I’ll speak, and you’ll answer me. 23How many crimes and sins have I committed? Make me aware of my disobedience and my sin.
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 10:20“ ‘Isn’t my life short enough? So stop ⌞this⌟, and leave me alone. Let me smile a little
- Job 22:15“Are you following the old path that wicked people have taken?
- Job 13:11Doesn’t his majesty terrify you? Doesn’t the fear of him fall upon you?
- Job 33:7You certainly don’t need to be terrified of me. I won’t put too much pressure on you.
- Psalms 119:120My body shudders in fear of you, and I am afraid of your regulations.
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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