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 nipped them on the crown by these rebating arguments, he calls upon them again for silence and audience; which he now requesteth not, but requireth; and the rather, haply, because they began to take him off, as fearing lest by his unadvised expressions he should provoke the Lord to lay yet more load upon him. Wherefore he addeth,
And let come on me what will] That is, at my peril be it, take you no thought; let all the trouble that may ensue be on my score, I will be accountable for it to God, who, I hope, will be more favourable to me than you: Interim non sine stomacho hoc dicit, saith Mercer; This Job speaketh not without some heat, yet not as one desperate; but rather resolute; for he feared no hurt from God.