the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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THE MESSAGE
Job 13:13
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Be quiet, and I will speak.Let whatever comes happen to me.
"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
"Be quiet and let me speak. Let things happen to me as they will.
"Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.
"Be silent before me so that I may speak; And let happen to me what may.
"Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come upon me what may.
"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
"Be silent before me so that I may speak;Then let come on me what may.
Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
Be quiet while I speak, then say what you will.
"So be quiet! Let me be! I'll do the talking, come on me what may!
Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
"Be quiet and let me talk! I accept whatever happens to me.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak also, and tell everything that has come upon me.
Be quiet and give me a chance to speak, and let the results be what they will.
"Let me have silence, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever may.
Be silent from me, that I may speak; and let what will, pass over me.
Holde youre tonges now, and let me speake, for there is some thinge come in to my mynde.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.
Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Hold your peace, let me alone that I may speake, and let come on me what will.
Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.
Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger,
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what wilt.
Be ye stille a litil, that Y speke, what euer thing the mynde hath schewid to me.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
"Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, Then let come on me what may!
"Be silent now and leave me alone. Let me speak, and I will face the consequences.
"Be quiet so that I may speak. Then let come on me what will.
"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
Quietly let me alone, that, I, may speak out, then let come on me, what may.
Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.
"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
"Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come on me what may.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hold your peace: Heb. Be silent from me
let me: Job 13:5, Job 7:11, Job 10:1, Job 21:3
and let come: Job 6:9, Job 6:10, Job 7:15, Job 7:16
Reciprocal: Job 1:2 - seven sons Job 13:19 - if I hold Job 32:20 - I will speak
Cross-References
As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting—life itself corrupt to the core.
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."
God continued, "The cries of the victims in Sodom and Gomorrah are deafening; the sin of those cities is immense. I'm going down to see for myself, see if what they're doing is as bad as it sounds. Then I'll know."
Later when Jesus was eating supper at Matthew's house with his close followers, a lot of disreputable characters came and joined them. When the Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of company, they had a fit, and lit into Jesus' followers. "What kind of example is this from your Teacher, acting cozy with crooks and riffraff?"
They called the man back a second time—the man who had been blind—and told him, "Give credit to God. We know this man is an impostor."
God is especially incensed against these "teachers" who live by lust, addicted to a filthy existence. They despise interference from true authority, preferring to indulge in self-rule. Insolent egotists, they don't hesitate to speak evil against the most splendid of creatures. Even angels, their superiors in every way, wouldn't think of throwing their weight around like that, trying to slander others before God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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:
that I may speak; or, "and I will speak",
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.
i מגני "desistite a me", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. k ויעבר עלי מה "ut transeat praeter me aliquid, vel a me", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 had made, and he asked the privilege, therefore, of being permitted to go on, and to say what he intended, let come what would.
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.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 behind you; it is high time that you should have done.
Let come on me what will.] I will now defend myself against you, and leave the cause to its issue.
