“ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. ”
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 w...
Job turns to plead his cause with God. He will speak whatever it costs ( Job 13:13-15 ). This also, he says, shall be my deliverance, that a godless man will not come before Him. Job means that his d...
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will . Hold your peace - You have perverted righteousness and truth, and your pleadings are totally irrelevant to the case; y...
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. Job would wish to be spared their speeches, so as to speak out all his mind as to his wretchedness ( Job 13:14 ),...
Job's Third Speech (continued) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favo...
Hold your peace. — He now prepares to make a declaration like the memorable one in Job 19 . He resolves at all hazards to face God in judgment.
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...
“Though He Slay Me” Job 13:1-28 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12 . Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he...
Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pas...
(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I d...
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 h...
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will]. Ver. 13. Hold your peace, let me alone, &c. ] This he had requested of them before, Job 13:5 , and now having...
Hold your peace Do not now interrupt me in my discourse; which, peradventure, he observed by their gestures, some of them were now attempting; let me alone, that I may speak That I may freely utt...
JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and underst...
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 wi...
Do not now interrupt me in my discourse; which peradventure he observed by their gestures some of them were now attempting. That I may speak; that I may freely utter my whole mind. Let come on me...
JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends ( Job 13:1-2 ). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumsta...
Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12 . Your remembrance...
EXPOSITION Job 13:1 , Job 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1-18 . are closely connected with Job 12:1-18 ; forming the natural termination to the first section of Job's argument,...
Hold your peace, let me alone, they should desist from their undeserved attacks, that I may speak, and let come on me what will, he was ready to take the consequences of his open speaking.
Job 10:1 ; Job 13:5 ; Job 21:3 ; Job 6:10 ; Job 6:9 ; Job 7:11 ; Job 7:15 ; Job 7:16