If in maintaining my own cause, and showing that I am not a hypocrite Job 13:16, it should so happen that my sufferings should be so increased that I should die, yet I will do it." The word "slay," or "kill," here refers to temporal death. I see that I may be exposed to increased calamities, yet I am willing to meet them. Before him - Hebrew, אל פניו, el panaiv, before his face, in his presence, or before his tribunal, for I desire no other judge but him.īarnes' Notes on the BibleThough he slay me - "God may so multiply my sorrows and pains that I cannot survive them.
And, what I have done amiss, I will as freely confess, and make supplication to my Judge for the pardon of it.
Hebrew, I will argue, prove, or demonstrate my ways that is, I will make a free and full confession of the whole course of my life, and I will boldly, though submissively, assert my own integrity, which he also, I doubt not, will acknowledge. But I will maintain mine own ways - Though I trust in him, yet I will humbly expostulate the matter with him.
Though he slay me - But though God should yet more and more increase my torments, so that I could bear them no longer, but should perceive myself to be at the point of death, without any hope of recovery yet will I trust in him - Or, more exactly according to the Hebrew text, Shall I not trust in him? Shall I despair? No I will not, I know he is a just, a faithful, and merciful God and he knows that my heart is upright before him, and that I am no hypocrite.
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