Job 13:15 · KJV
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. {maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue}”
— Job 13:15
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
He also {shall be} my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Job 13 — Context
Hold 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}
16He also {shall be} my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Cross References
Psalms 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou {art} with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Job 23:10
But he knoweth the way that I take: {when} he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. {that...: Heb. that is with me}
Job 19:25-28
For I know {that} my redeemer liveth, and {that} he shall stand at the latter {day} upon the earth:
Romans 8:38-39
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
1 John 3:20
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Job 27:5
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Job 23:4-7
I would order {my} cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.