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

11Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you? 12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. “Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may. 14Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands? 15Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

Job 13:13 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Hold your peaceחָרֵשׁchârash · be quietH2790
• let me alone, that I may speakדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• and let comeעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674

Cross-references for Job 13:13

• Job 13:5If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
• Job 7:11“Therefore, 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 10:1“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 21:3Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.
• Job 6:9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
• Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

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

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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