Job 13:17
Listen well to my word, and to my demonstration with your ears.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
In Context
16Even he will come to my assistance; for a hypocrite cannot come before him.
18Behold now, I have arrayed my cause: I know that I shall be indeed justified.
Cross References
Job 13:6Do hearken but to my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 31:35Oh who will bring me one that would hear me! behold, here is my plea; may the Almighty answer me; and any record which my opponent may have written,—
Matthew Henry on Job 13:14-23
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 16 He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him. 17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I… Read the whole commentary →