Job 13:6
Listen to what I will say to you now; listen while I am saying what is true about myself.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
In Context
5I wish/desire that you would be silent; that would be the wisest thing that you could do.
Cross References
Judges 9:7When Jotham heard about that, he climbed up Gerizim Mountain. He stood at the top of the mountain and shouted to the people down below, “You leaders of Shechem, listen to me, in order that God will listen to you!
Job 21:2“Listen to what I say, all three of you; that is the only thing that you can do that will comfort me.
Job 34:2“You three men who think that you [SAR] are very wise, hear me; listen to what I am saying, you men who say that you know so much.
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 →