Job 13:13

“So, be quiet and allow me to speak, and then it will not matter what happens to me.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

In Context

12The things that you say that you think are wise are as useless as [MET] as ashes; what you say to defend your opinions is no better than [MET] clay that quickly crumbles.

14I am ready to endure anything; I am even willing to risk being executed [IDM, DOU] for what I will say.

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Cross References

Job 6:9I wish that he would crush me and let me die. I wish that he would reach out his hand and take away my life.

Job 7:15with the result that I would prefer to be strangled to death than to continue to be alive being only a bunch of bones.

Job 13:5I wish/desire that you would be silent; that would be the wisest thing that you could do.

Matthew Henry on Job 13:2-13

Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for… Read the whole commentary →

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