Job 13:13

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹³ "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will. ¹⁴ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand? ¹⁵ Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. ¹⁶ This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him. ¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. ¹⁸ See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. ¹⁹ Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. ²⁰ "Only don't do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face: ²¹ Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid. ²² Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer 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 was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."

Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

Genesis 13:6
The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

Genesis 13:9
Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."

Genesis 18:20
Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Genesis 38:7
Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed 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.