Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 13:13
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.
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.
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...
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...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
Job turns to plead his cause with God. He will speak whatever it costs (Job 13:13). This also, he says, shall be my deliverance, that a godless man will not come before Him. Job means that his deliver...
Job now turns from his friends, whom he commands to be silent, to his great plea with God, resuming the intention expressed in Job 13:3. The passage has two parts, one preliminary, Job 13:13, exhibiti...
_that I may speak_ Emphasis on _I, that I now_may speak. The last clause intimates his resolve to speak at all risks....
5. Job would dare to present his case before God. (Job 13:13-19) TEXT 13:13-19 13 HOLD your PEACE, LET ME ALONE, that I may speak; AND LET COME ON ME WHAT WILL. 14 Wherefore should I TAKE my flesh...
_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), happen...
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 favour...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 13 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
An evil man is afraid to meet God. God will punish that man for his evil deeds. Job’s friends thought that Job was evil. They warned him not to argue with God. They told him to change his behaviour....
הַחֲרִ֣ישׁוּ מִ֭מֶּנִּי וַ אֲדַבְּרָה ־אָ֑נִי וְ...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“THOUGH HE SLAY ME” Job 13:1 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4. Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he was sufferin...
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 pass...
_Whatsoever. Hebrew, "come what will. " Septuagint, "that my anger may cease." (Haydock)_...
(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 de...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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;...
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 t...
_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 utte...
Job's Comfort and Prayer...
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 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 understood...
HOLD YOUR PEACE: _ Heb._ be silent from me...
"THEN LET COME ON ME WHAT MAY": Job was ready to speak out to God and take the consequences....
13-22 Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Tempor...
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 WHAT...
Job 13:13 peace H2790 (H8685) speak H1696 (H8762) come H5674 (H8799) Hold your peace - Heb. Be silent from me let me -...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to three friends continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: We should presevere in the way of duty, though it cost us all that is dear to us in this world, re...
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 remembrances are like...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:3 Before he turns to address his lament directly to God (Job 13:20), Job argues that his friends have misdiagnosed him (WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS;...
_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). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumstances to main...
EXPOSITION JOB 13:1, JOB 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1. are closely connected with Job 12:1; fo
Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason wit...
Job 10:1; Job 13:5; Job 21:3; Job 6:10; Job 6:9;...