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the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Christian Standard Bible ®

Job 13:21

remove your hand from me,and do not let your terror frighten me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Fear of God;   Reasoning;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Job;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid.
King James Version
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
English Standard Version
withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.
New Century Version
Take your punishment away from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.
New English Translation
Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.
Amplified Bible
Withdraw Your hand from me and remove this bodily suffering, And let not the dread of You terrify me.
New American Standard Bible
Remove Your hand from me, And may the dread of You not terrify me.
World English Bible
Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
Legacy Standard Bible
Move Your hand far from me,And let not the dread of You terrify me.
Berean Standard Bible
Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
Contemporary English Version
stop punishing and terrifying me!
Complete Jewish Bible
take your hand away from me, and don't let fear of you frighten me.
Darby Translation
Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
Easy-to-Read Version
Stop punishing me, and don't frighten me with your terrors.
George Lamsa Translation
Do not withdraw thy help from me; and let not thy dread terrify me.
Good News Translation
stop punishing me, and don't crush me with terror.
Lexham English Bible
withdraw your hand from me, and let not your dread terrify me.
Literal Translation
Remove Your hand from me, and let not Your terror make me afraid.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed.
American Standard Version
Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid.
Bible in Basic English
Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid.
King James Version (1611)
Withdrawe thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make mee afraid.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me.
English Revised Version
Withdraw thine hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make thin hond fer fro me; and thi drede make not me aferd.
Update Bible Version
Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid.
Webster's Bible Translation
Withdraw thy hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
New King James Version
Withdraw Your hand far from me, And let not the dread of You make me afraid.
New Living Translation
Remove your heavy hand from me, and don't terrify me with your awesome presence.
New Life Bible
Take Your hand from me, and do not let the fear of You make me so afraid.
New Revised Standard
withdraw your hand far from me, and do not let dread of you terrify me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thy hand - from off me, take thou far away, and, thy terror, let it not startle me!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.
Revised Standard Version
withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not dread of thee terrify me.
Young's Literal Translation
Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Remove Your hand from me, And let not the dread of You terrify me.

Contextual Overview

13Be quiet, and I will speak.Let whatever comes happen to me. 14I will put myself at riskand take my life in my own hands. 15Even if he kills me, I will hope in him.I will still defend my ways before him. 16Yes, this will result in my deliverance,for no godless person can appear before him. 17Pay close attention to my words;let my declaration ring in your ears. 18Now then, I have prepared my case;I know that I am right. 19Can anyone indict me?If so, I will be silent and die. 20Only grant these two things to me, God,so that I will not have to hide from your presence: 21remove your hand from me,and do not let your terror frighten me.22Then call, and I will answer,or I will speak, and you can respond to me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Withdraw: Job 10:20, Job 22:15-17

let not: Job 13:11, Job 33:7, Psalms 119:120

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 21:30 - he was afraid Job 22:10 - sudden Job 23:6 - plead Job 31:35 - General Job 40:2 - he that reproveth Psalms 39:10 - Remove Lamentations 2:8 - he hath not Ezekiel 20:22 - I withdrew

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Withdraw thine hand far from me,.... His afflicting hand, which pressed him; this he desires might be removed, or otherwise he could not have the command of himself, make use of his reasoning faculties, recollect his arguments, and give them in their due force and strength; for afflictions of body affect the soul and memory, understanding and judgment; this is one of the things he would have agreed unto before the dispute was entered on; the other follows:

and let not thy dread make me afraid; the terrors of his law, or the dreadful apprehensions of his wrath; he desires to be freed from all slavish fear of God, that now possessed his mind through the severity of his dispensations towards him, behaving as if he was his enemy; or he deprecates his appearance in any external visible way and manner, which might be frightening to him, and so hinder freedom of speech in his own defence; these two things are before requested, Job 9:34; which should they be granted, he proposes as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Withdraw thine hand far from me - Notes Job 9:34. The hand of God here is used to denote the calamity or affliction which Job was suffering. The meaning is, “Remove my affliction; restore me to health, and I will then enter on the argument in vindication of my cause. I am now oppressed, and broken down, and enfeebled by disease, and I cannot present it with the vigor which I might evince if I were in health.”

And let not thy dread make me afraid - “Do not so overpower me by thy severe majesty, that I cannot present my cause in a calm and composed manner.” See the notes at Job 9:34. Job felt that God had power to overawe him, and he asked, therefore, that he might have a calm and composed mind, and then he would be able to do justice to his own cause.


 
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