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Biblia Karoli Gaspar
Jób 13:13
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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
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.