Job 13:17
Hear ye my word, and perceive ye with [your] ears (my) dark and hard privy speeches/ (my) dark and hard figurative speeches. (Hear ye my voice, and perceive ye with your ears, my words of explanation.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
In Context
Cross References
Job 13:6Therefore hear ye my chastisings; and perceive ye the doom of my lips. (And so hear ye my arguments; and understand ye the judgement from my lips.)
Job 31:35who giveth then an helper to me, that Almighty God hear my desire? that he that deemeth, write a book, ( then who shall be my helper? my only desire is that Almighty God would listen to me. And if my adversary hath written a book against me,)
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 →