Job 13:13
New International Version
“Keep silent and let me speak; then let come to me what may.

New Living Translation
“Be silent now and leave me alone. Let me speak, and I will face the consequences.

English Standard Version
“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

Berean Standard Bible
Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

King James Bible
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

New King James Version
“Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, Then let come on me what may!

New American Standard Bible
“Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come upon me what may.

NASB 1995
“Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come on me what may.

NASB 1977
“Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come on me what may.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come on me what may.

Amplified Bible
“Be silent before me so that I may speak; And let happen to me what may.

Christian Standard Bible
Be quiet, and I will speak. Let whatever comes happen to me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Be quiet, and I will speak. Let whatever comes happen to me.

American Standard Version
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Be silent before me and I shall speak also, and I will tell everything that has passed against me

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger,

Contemporary English Version
Be quiet while I speak, and we'll see what happens.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

English Revised Version
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what wilt.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Be quiet, because I want to speak. Let whatever may happen to me [happen]!

Good News Translation
Be quiet and give me a chance to speak, and let the results be what they will.

International Standard Version
"Don't talk to me! It's my turn to speak; then whatever happens, happens.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, And let come on me what will.

Literal Standard Version
Keep silent from me, and I speak, | And pass over me what will.

Majority Standard Bible
Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

New American Bible
Be silent! Let me alone that I may speak, no matter what happens to me.

NET Bible
"Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

New Revised Standard Version
“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

New Heart English Bible
"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

World English Bible
“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Young's Literal Translation
Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

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Context
Job Reproves His Friends
12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. 13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may. 14Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?…

Cross References
Job 13:5
If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!

Job 13:12
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.


Treasury of Scripture

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Hold your peace.

Job 13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

Job 7:11
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

and let come

Job 6:9,10
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! …

Job 7:15,16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life…

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Job 13
1. Job reproves his friends for partiality
14. He professes his confidence in God;
19. and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him














(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.

Verse 13. - Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; literally, be silent from me that I may speak; but our version gives the true meaning. Job repeats the entreaty with which he had bemoan (vers. 5, 6). And let some on me what will. 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 must 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Be silent,
הַחֲרִ֣ישׁוּ (ha·ḥă·rî·šū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

and I
אָ֑נִי (’ā·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

will speak.
וַאֲדַבְּרָה־ (wa·’ă·ḏab·bə·rāh-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

Then let come
וְיַעֲבֹ֖ר (wə·ya·‘ă·ḇōr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

to me
עָלַ֣י (‘ā·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

what [may].
מָֽה׃ (māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what


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