13 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones. I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.
"My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Commentary on Job 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for,
Job 13:1-12
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
Job 13:13-22
Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable.
Job 13:23-28
Here,