¹³ Hold your peace! Let me alone, so I may speak; and let come on me what may.

¹⁴ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands [incurring the danger of God’s wrath]?

¹⁵ [I do it because, though He slay me, yet will I wait for and trust Him and] behold, He will slay me; I have no hope—nevertheless, I will maintain and argue my ways before Him and even to His face.

¹³ Hold your peace! Let me alone, so I may speak; and let come on me what may.

¹⁴ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands [incurring the danger of God’s wrath]?

¹⁵ [I do it because, though He slay me, yet will I wait for and trust Him and] behold, He will slay me; I have no hope—nevertheless, I will maintain and argue my ways before Him and even to His face.