Job 13:16

Easy-to-Read Version

And if he lets me live, it will be because I had the confidence to speak. No guilty person would dare meet God face to face.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yes, this will result in my deliverance,for no godless person can appear before him.

Hebrew Names Version
This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.

King James Version
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

English Standard Version
This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.

New Century Version
This is my salvation. The wicked cannot come before him.

New English Translation
Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him.

Amplified Bible
"This also will be my salvation, For a godless man may not come before Him.

New American Standard Bible
"This also will be my salvation, For a godless person cannot come before His presence.

World English Bible
This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.

Legacy Standard Bible
This also will be my salvation,For a godless man may not come before His presence.

Berean Standard Bible
Moreover, this will be my salvation, for no godless man can appear before Him.

Contemporary English Version
This may be what saves me, because no guilty person would come to his court.

Complete Jewish Bible
And this is what will save me — that a hypocrite cannot appear before him.

Darby Translation
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.

George Lamsa Translation
He also shall be my Saviour; for a hypocrite shall not come before him.

Good News Translation
It may even be that my boldness will save me, since no wicked person would dare to face God.

Lexham English Bible
Moreover, this is salvation to me, that the godless would not come before him.

Literal Translation
He also is my salvation, for an ungodly one shall not come before Him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he is euen the same, that maketh me whole: and why? there maye no Ypocrite come before him,

American Standard Version
This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.

Bible in Basic English
And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him.

King James Version (1611)
Hee also shall be my saluation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He shalbe my saluation: for there may no hypocrite come before him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.

English Revised Version
This also shall be my salvation; for a godless man shall not come before him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he schal be my sauyour; for whi ech ypocrite schal not come in his siyt.

Update Bible Version
This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.

Webster's Bible Translation
He also [shall be] my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.

New King James Version
He also shall be my salvation, For a hypocrite could not come before Him.

New Living Translation
But this is what will save me—I am not godless. If I were, I could not stand before him.

New Life Bible
This will save me, for a sinful man may not come to Him.

New Revised Standard
This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even he, will be on my side - unto salvation, For, not before his face, shall any impious person come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.

Revised Standard Version
This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

Young's Literal Translation
Also -- He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This also will be my salvation, For a godless man may not come before His presence.

Contextual Overview

¹³ "Be quiet and let me talk! I accept whatever happens to me. ¹⁴ I will put myself in danger and take my life in my own hands. ¹⁵ I will continue to trust God even if he kills me. But I will defend myself to his face. ¹⁶ And if he lets me live, it will be because I had the confidence to speak. No guilty person would dare meet God face to face. ¹⁷ Listen carefully to what I say. Let me explain. ¹⁸ I am ready now to defend myself. I will carefully present my arguments. I know I will be shown to be right. ¹⁹ If anyone can prove I am wrong, I will shut up and wait to die. ²⁰ "God, just give me two things, and then I will not hide from you: ²¹ Stop punishing me, and don't frighten me with your terrors. ²² Then call to me, and I will answer you. Or let me speak, and you answer me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my salvation: Exodus 15:2, Psalms 27:1, Psalms 62:6, Psalms 62:7, Psalms 118:14, Psalms 118:21, Isaiah 12:2, Jeremiah 3:23, Acts 13:47

for an hypocrite: Job 8:13, Job 27:8-10, Job 36:13, Isaiah 33:14

Reciprocal: Luke 11:41 - rather James 5:11 - Ye

Cross-References

Genesis 13:1
So Abram left Egypt. He traveled through the Negev with his wife and everything he owned. Lot was also with them.

Genesis 13:2
At this time Abram was very rich. He had many animals and much silver and gold.

Genesis 13:3
Abram continued traveling around. He left the Negev and went back to Bethel. He went to the place between the city of Bethel and Ai, where he and his family had camped before.

Genesis 13:14
After Lot left, the Lord said to Abram, "Look around you. Look north, south, east, west.

Genesis 13:16
I will make your people so many that they will be like the dust of the earth. If people could count all the particles of dust on earth, they could count your people.

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tents. He went to live near the big trees of Mamre. This was near the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to honor the Lord .

Genesis 15:5
Then God led Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky. See the many stars. There are so many you cannot count them. Your family will be like that."

Genesis 17:6
I will give you many descendants. New nations and kings will come from you.

Genesis 17:16
I will bless her. I will give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many new nations. Kings of nations will come from her."

Genesis 17:20
"You mentioned Ishmael, and I heard you. I will bless him, and he will have many children. He will be the father of twelve great leaders. His family will become a great nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He also [shall be] my salvation,.... Job, though he asserted the integrity of his heart and life, yet did not depend on his ways and works for salvation, but only on the Lord himself; this is to be understood not of temporal salvation, though God is the author of that, and it is only to be had of him, yet Job had no hope concerning that; but of spiritual and eternal salvation, which God the Father has contrived, determined, and resolved on, and sent his Son to effect; which Christ being sent is the author of by his obedience, sufferings, and death; and in him, and in his name alone, is salvation; and every soul, sensible of the insufficiency of himself and others to save him, will resolve, as Job here, that he, and he only, shall be his Saviour, who is an able, willing, and complete one; see Hosea 14:3; and the words are expressive of faith of interest in him. Job knew him to be his Saviour, and living Redeemer, and would acknowledge no other; but claim his interest in him, now and hereafter, and which was his greatest support under all his troubles; see Job 19:26;

for an hypocrite shall not come before him; a hypocrite may come into the house of God, and worship him externally, and seem to be very devout and religious; and he shall come before the tribunal of God, and stand at his bar, to be tried and judged; but he shall not continue in the presence of God, nor enjoy his favour, or he shall not be able to make his cause good before him; and indeed he does not care to have himself examined by him, nor shall he be saved everlastingly, but undergo the most severe punishment, Matthew 24:51. Job here either has respect to his friends, whom he censures as hypocrites, and retorts the charge upon they brought on him; or he has reference to that charge, and by this means clears himself of it, since there was nothing he was more desirous of than to refer his case to the decision of the omniscient God, and righteous Judge; which if he was an hypocrite he would never have done, since such can never stand so strict and severe an examination.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He also shalt be my salvation - See the notes at Isaiah 12:2. Literally, “He is unto me for salvation,” that is, “I put my trust in him, and he will save me. The opportunity of appearing before God, and of maintaining my cause in his presence, will result in my deliverance from the charges which are alleged against me. I shall be able there to show that I am not a hypocrite, and God will become my defender.”

For an hypocrite shall not come before him - This seems to be a proverb, or a statement of a general and indisputable principle. Job admitted this to be true. Yet he expected to be able to vindicate himself before God, and this gould prove that he was not an hypocrite - on the general principle that a man who was permitted to stand before God and to obtain his favor, could not be an unrighteous man. To God he looked with confidence; and God, he had no doubt, would be his defender. This fact would prove that he could not be an hypocrite, as his friends maintained.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 13:16. He also shall be my salvation — He will save me, because I trust in him.

A hypocrite — A wicked man shall never be able to stand before him. I am conscious of this, and were I, as you suppose, a secret sinner, I should not dare to make this appeal.