Job 13:13 · KJV
“Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what {will}. {Hold...: Heb. Be silent from me}”
— Job 13:13
Your remembrances {are} like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Job 13 — Context
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12Your remembrances {are} like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what {will}. {Hold...: Heb. Be silent from me}
14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. {maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue}
Cross References
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 13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
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. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}
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. {life: Heb. bones}