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id="topverse">Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what <i>will</i>.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/job/13.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/job/13.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/job/13.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/job/13.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/job/13.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/job/13.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/job/13.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/job/13.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/job/13.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/job/13.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated 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class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/job/13.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(13) <span class= "bld">Hold your peace.</span>—He now prepares to make a declaration like the memorable one in Job 19. He resolves at all hazards to face God in judgment.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/job/13.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/job/13-13.htm" title="Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.">Job 13:13</a></span>. <span class="ital">Hold your peace — </span>Do not now interrupt me in my discourse; which, peradventure, he observed by their gestures, some of them were now attempting; <span class="ital">let me alone, that I may speak — </span>That I may freely utter my whole mind; <span class="ital">let come on me what will — </span>Whatever the event may be, I am determined to speak in my own defence. My friends may put an unfavourable construction upon it, and think the worse of me for it; but I hope God will not make my necessary defence to be my offence, as they do: he will justify me, (<a href="/job/13-18.htm" title="Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.">Job 13:18</a>,) and then nothing can come amiss to me. Those that are upright, and have the assurance of their uprightness, may cheerfully welcome every event. Come what will, they are ready for it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/job/13.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>13:13-22 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. Temporal salvation he little expected, but of his eternal salvation he was very confident; that God would not only be his Saviour to make him happy, but his salvation, in the sight and enjoyment of whom he should be happy. He knew himself not to be a hypocrite, and concluded that he should not be rejected. We should be well pleased with God as a Friend, even when he seems against us as an enemy. We must believe that all shall work for good to us, even when all seems to make against us. We must cleave to God, yea, though we cannot for the present find comfort in him. In a dying hour, we must derive from him living comforts; and this is to trust in him, though he slay us.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/job/13.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Hold your peace - Margin, Be silent from me; see <a href="/job/13-5.htm">Job 13:5</a>. 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.<p>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." <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/job/13.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>13. Job would wish to be spared their speeches, so as to speak out all his mind as to his wretchedness (Job 13:14), happen what will.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/job/13.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> Do not now interrupt me in my discourse; which peradventure he observed by their gestures some of them were now attempting. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">That I may speak; </span> that I may freely utter my whole mind. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Let come on me what will:</span> for the event of my discourse with God, wherewith you threaten me, I am willing to submit myself to him, to do with me as he pleaseth; for I know he will not judge so severely and partially of me, or my words, as you do, but will accept what is good, and pass by any circumstantial defects in my person or speech, as knowing that I speak from an upright heart. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/job/13.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>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: <p>that I may speak; or, "and I will speak", <p>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. <p>(i) "desistite a me", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. (k) "ut transeat praeter me aliquid, vel a me", Schmidt. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/job/13.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/job/13.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">13</span>. <span class="ital">that I may speak</span>] Emphasis on <span class="ital">I,—that I now</span> may speak. The last clause intimates his resolve to speak at all risks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">13–22</span>. Job now turns from his friends, whom he commands to be silent, to his great plea with God, resuming the intention expressed in <span class="ital"><a href="/job/13-3.htm" title="Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.">Job 13:3</a></span>. The passage has two parts, one preliminary, <span class="ital"><a href="/context/job/13-13.htm" title="Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will....">Job 13:13-16</a></span>, exhibiting a singular picture of the conflict between resolution and fear in Job’s mind. He will go before God come upon him what will (<span class="ital"><a href="/job/13-13.htm" title="Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.">Job 13:13</a></span>). Yet he cannot hide from himself that it may be at the hazard of his life. Yet he will not be deterred; he will defend his ways to God’s face (<span class="ital"><a href="/context/job/13-14.htm" title="Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?...">Job 13:14-15</a></span>). And yet again, this very courage which he has, arising from his sense of innocence, is a token to him that he shall be victorious (<span class="ital"><a href="/job/13-16.htm" title="He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.">Job 13:16</a></span>). The second part, <span class="ital"><a href="/context/job/13-17.htm" title="Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears....">Job 13:17-22</a></span>. Feeling that the victory is already his he commands his friends to mark his pleading of his cause. He knows he shall be found in the right. Nay, no one will even plead against him (<span class="ital"><a href="/context/job/13-17.htm" title="Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears....">Job 13:17-19</a></span>). Only he begs two conditions of God, That He would lift His afflicting hand from him, and, That He would not affright him with His terror (<span class="ital"><a href="/context/job/13-20.htm" title="Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from you....">Job 13:20-22</a></span>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/job/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 13.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak</span>; literally, <span class="accented">be silent from me that</span> I <span class="accented">may speak</span>; but our version gives the true meaning. Job repeats the entreaty with which he had bemoan (vers. 5, 6<span class="cmt_word">). And let some on me what will</span>. Job is prepared to face the worst. He feels, as he expresses it below (ver. 19), that, if he holds his tongue, he must die. He <span class="accented">must</span> speak, and speak he will. After that, let God do as he may please - he will accept his punishment, if God thinks fit to punish him. Job 13:13<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/job/13.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Be silent therefore from me, he says to them, i.e., stand away from me and leave me in peace (opp. החרישׁ אל, <a href="/isaiah/41-1.htm">Isaiah 41:1</a>): then will I speak, or: in order that I may speak (the cohortative usual in apod. imper.) - he, and he alone, will defend (i.e., against God) his cause, which they have so uncharitably abandoned in spite of their better knowledge and conscience, let thereby happen (עבר, similar to <a href="/deuteronomy/24-5.htm">Deuteronomy 24:5</a>) to him מה, whatever may happen (מה שׁיעבר); or more simply: whatever it may be, quidquid est, as <a href="/2_samuel/18-22.htm">2 Samuel 18:22</a> ויהי מה, let happen whatever may happen; or more simply: whatever it may be, like מה דּבר quodcunque, <a href="/numbers/23-3.htm">Numbers 23:3</a>; מי occurs also in a similar sense, thus placed last (Ewald, 104, d).<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/job/13-13.htm">Job 13:13 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../job/13-12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 13:12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 13:12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/13-14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 13:14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 13:14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>