Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
In him - so the margin, or Qeri', reads х low (H3807a)]. But the textual reading (Kethibh) is 'not,' which agrees best with the context, and other passages wherein he says he has no hope (Job 6:11; Job 7:6; Job 7:21; Job 9:25; Job 10:20; Job 19:10). 'Though He slay me, and I dare no more hope, yet I will maintain,' etc. - i:e., 'I desire to vindicate myself before Him,' as not a hypocrite (Umbreit and Noyes) х lo' (H3808)]. Still the English version agrees with the alternations in Job elsewhere between total despair and fitful gleams of faith and, hope. Job 13:16 also favours the I English version. "He also (or this also) shall be my salvation," implying that he had still trust in God, and had not at all times cast off hope.