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King James Version

Job 13:13

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Self-Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hold Your Peace;   Silence;   Silence-Speech;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Job;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 8;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Be quiet, and I will speak.Let whatever comes happen to me.
Hebrew Names Version
"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
English Standard Version
"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
New Century Version
"Be quiet and let me speak. Let things happen to me as they will.
New English Translation
"Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.
Amplified Bible
"Be silent before me so that I may speak; And let happen to me what may.
New American Standard Bible
"Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come upon me what may.
World English Bible
"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Be silent before me so that I may speak;Then let come on me what may.
Berean Standard Bible
Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
Contemporary English Version
Be quiet while I speak, then say what you will.
Complete Jewish Bible
"So be quiet! Let me be! I'll do the talking, come on me what may!
Darby Translation
Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
Easy-to-Read Version
"Be quiet and let me talk! I accept whatever happens to me.
George Lamsa Translation
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak also, and tell everything that has come upon me.
Good News Translation
Be quiet and give me a chance to speak, and let the results be what they will.
Lexham English Bible
"Let me have silence, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever may.
Literal Translation
Be silent from me, that I may speak; and let what will, pass over me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Holde youre tonges now, and let me speake, for there is some thinge come in to my mynde.
American Standard Version
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.
Bible in Basic English
Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
King James Version (1611)
Hold your peace, let me alone that I may speake, and let come on me what will.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger,
English Revised Version
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what wilt.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be ye stille a litil, that Y speke, what euer thing the mynde hath schewid to me.
Update Bible Version
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
New King James Version
"Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, Then let come on me what may!
New Living Translation
"Be silent now and leave me alone. Let me speak, and I will face the consequences.
New Life Bible
"Be quiet so that I may speak. Then let come on me what will.
New Revised Standard
"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Quietly let me alone, that, I, may speak out, then let come on me, what may.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.
Revised Standard Version
"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
Young's Literal Translation
Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
THE MESSAGE
"So hold your tongue while I have my say, then I'll take whatever I have coming to me. Why do I go out on a limb like this and take my life in my hands? Because even if he killed me, I'd keep on hoping. I'd defend my innocence to the very end. Just wait, this is going to work out for the best—my salvation! If I were guilt-stricken do you think I'd be doing this— laying myself on the line before God? You'd better pay attention to what I'm telling you, listen carefully with both ears. Now that I've laid out my defense, I'm sure that I'll be acquitted. Can anyone prove charges against me? I've said my piece. I rest my case.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come on me what may.

Contextual Overview

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 an 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 hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. 20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. 21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. 22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hold your peace: Heb. Be silent from me

let me: Job 13:5, Job 7:11, Job 10:1, Job 21:3

and let come: Job 6:9, Job 6:10, Job 7:15, Job 7:16

Reciprocal: Job 1:2 - seven sons Job 13:19 - if I hold Job 32:20 - I will speak

Cross-References

Genesis 6:11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord .
Genesis 13:4
Unto the place of the altar, which he had make there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord .
Genesis 13:6
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Genesis 13:8
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis 15:16
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Genesis 18:20
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Genesis 38:7
And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord ; and the Lord slew him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hold your peace, let me alone,.... Or, cease "from me" i: from speaking to me, or hindering me from speaking. Job might perceive, by some motions of his friends, that they were about to interrupt him; and therefore he desires they would be silent, and let him go on:

that I may speak; or, "and I will speak",

and let come on me what [will]; either from men, or from God himself; a good man, when he knows his cause is good, and he has truth on his side, is not careful or concerned what reproach may be cast upon him, or what censures from men he may undergo; or what persecutions from them he may endure; none of these things move him from his duty, or can stop his mouth from speaking the truth; let him be threatened with what he will, he cannot but speak the things which he has seen and heard, and knows to be true; as for what may come upon him from God, that he is not solicitous about; he knows he will lay nothing upon him but what is common to men, will support him under it, or deliver him from it in his own time and way, or however make all things work together for his good: some render it, "and let something pass by me", or "from me" k; that is, somewhat of his grief and sorrow, while he was speaking and pouring out his complaints before God; but the former sense seems best.

i מגני "desistite a me", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. k ויעבר עלי מה "ut transeat praeter me aliquid, vel a me", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hold your peace - Margin, Be silent from me; see Job 13:5. It is possible that Job may have perceived in them some disposition to interrupt him in a rude manner in reply to the severe remarks which he had made, and he asked the privilege, therefore, of being permitted to go on, and to say what he intended, let come what would.

And let come on me what will - Anything, whether reproaches from you, or additional sufferings from the hand of God. Allow me to express my sentiments, whatever may be the consequences to myself. One cannot but be forcibly reminded by this verse of the remark of the Greek philosopher, “Strike, but hear me.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 13:13. Hold your peace — You have perverted righteousness and truth, and your pleadings are totally irrelevant to the case; you have travelled out of the road; you have left law and justice behind you; it is high time that you should have done.

Let come on me what will.] I will now defend myself against you, and leave the cause to its issue.


 
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