Job 13:22
And You call, and I answer, || Or—I speak, and You answer me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
In Context
21Put Your hand far off from me, || And do not let Your terror terrify me.
23How many iniquities and sins do I have? Let me know my transgression and my sin.
Cross References
Job 9:32But if a man like myself—I answer Him, || We come together into judgment.
Job 31:35Who gives to me a hearing? Behold, my mark. The Mighty One answers me, || And my adversary has written a bill.
Job 40:4“Behold, I have been vile, || What do I return to You? I have placed my hand on my mouth.
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 →