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13 “Be silent!
    Leave me alone, that I may speak.
    Let come on me what will.
14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,
    and put my life in my hand?
15 Behold, he will kill me.
    I have no hope.
    Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
16 This also will be my salvation,
    that a godless man will not come before him.
17 Listen carefully to my speech.
    Let my declaration be in your ears.
18 See now, I have set my cause in order.
    I know that I am righteous.
19 Who is he who will contend with me?
    For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

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13 Let me have silence,[a] and I myself[b] will speak,
and let come over me whatever may.
14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
and[c] put[d] my life in my hand?
15 Look,[e] though he kill me, I will hope in[f] him;
however, I will defend my ways before him.[g]
16 Moreover, this is salvation to me,
that the godless would not come before him.[h]
17 “Listen carefully to my words,
and let my exposition be in your ears.
18 Please look,[i] I have prepared my case;
I know that I myself[j] will be vindicated.
19 Who is he who will contend with me?
For then I would be silent, and I would pass away.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 13:13 Literally “Be silent away from me”
  2. Job 13:13 Emphatic personal pronoun
  3. Job 13:14 Hebrew “now”
  4. Job 13:14 Or “should I put,” or “will I put”
  5. Job 13:15 Or “Though”
  6. Job 13:15 Or “for”
  7. Job 13:15 Literally “to his faces”
  8. Job 13:16 Literally “to his faces”
  9. Job 13:18 Or “Look here”
  10. Job 13:18 Emphatic personal pronoun