Job 13:17

The NET Bible®

Listen carefully to my words; let your ears be attentive to my explanation.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Pay close attention to my words;let my declaration ring in your ears.

Hebrew Names Version
Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

King James Version
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

English Standard Version
Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

New Century Version
Listen carefully to my words; let your ears hear what I say.

Amplified Bible
"Listen diligently to my speech, And let my declaration fill your ears.

New American Standard Bible
"Listen carefully to my speech, And let my declaration fill your ears.

World English Bible
Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.

Legacy Standard Bible
Listen carefully to my words,And let my declaration fill your ears.

Berean Standard Bible
Listen carefully to my words; let my declaration ring in your ears.

Contemporary English Version
Listen carefully to my words!

Complete Jewish Bible
"Listen closely, then, to my words; pay attention to what I am saying.

Darby Translation
Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.

Easy-to-Read Version
Listen carefully to what I say. Let me explain.

George Lamsa Translation
Listen diligently to my speech, and I will relate my declaration in your presence.

Good News Translation
Now listen to my words of explanation.

Lexham English Bible
"Listen carefully to my words, and let my exposition be in your ears.

Literal Translation
Listen, hear my word, and let what I say be in your ears.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare my wordes, and pondre my sayenges with youre eares.

American Standard Version
Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in your ears.

Bible in Basic English
Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.

King James Version (1611)
Heare diligently my speach, and my declaration with your eares.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare diligently my wordes, and ponder my sayinges with your eares.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing.

English Revised Version
Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Here ye my word, and perseyue ye with eeris derke and harde figuratif spechis.

Update Bible Version
Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in your ears.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

New King James Version
Listen carefully to my speech, And to my declaration with your ears.

New Living Translation
"Listen closely to what I am about to say. Hear me out.

New Life Bible
Be careful to listen to my words. Let what I say fill your ears.

New Revised Standard
Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear ye patiently my speech, and be my declaration in your ears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths.

Revised Standard Version
Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

Young's Literal Translation
Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Listen carefully to my speech, And let my declaration fill your ears.

Contextual Overview

¹³ "Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may. ¹⁴ Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands? ¹⁵ Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face! ¹⁶ Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him. ¹⁷ Listen carefully to my words; let your ears be attentive to my explanation. ¹⁸ See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right. ¹⁹ Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die. ²⁰ Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face: ²¹ Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror. ²² Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

Bible Verse Review
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Job 13:6, Job 33:1

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

Genesis 13:17
Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear diligently my speech,.... Or, "in hearing hear" s; meaning, not only that his friends would attentively hear him, but continue to hear him; that they would hear him out what he had to say further: upon his expressing himself with so much faith and confidence in God, they might rise up from their seats and be preparing to be gone, as not having patience to hear a man talk so confidently, who they thought was a bad man and an hypocrite; or they might attempt to interrupt him while speaking, and therefore he desires they would be still, and patiently and diligently hear what he had more to say:

and my declaration with your ears; that is, that they would listen to it attentively, when he doubted not but he should make his case as clear as the sun, and set it in such a point of view, as that it would appear most plainly to be right, and he to be a just man.

s שמעו שמוע "audite audiendo", Pagninus, Montanus, Beza, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear diligently my speech - That which I have made; that is, the declaration which I have made of my innocence. He refers to his solemn declaration, Job 13:15-16 that he had unwavering confidence in God, and that even should God slay him he would put confidence in him. This solemn appeal he wished them to attend to as one of the utmost importance.