Job 13:15
Good News Translation
I've lost all hope, so what if God kills me? I am going to state my case to him.

New Revised Standard Version
See, he will kill me; I have no hope; but I will defend my ways to his face.

Contemporary English Version
God may kill me, but still I will trust him and offer my defense.

New American Bible
Slay me though he might, I will wait for him; I will defend my conduct before him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

he slay me

Job 13:18 If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.

Job 19:25-28 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. . . .

Job 23:10 But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

Psalm 23:4 For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Romans 8:38,39 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might, . . .

but I will

Job 10:7 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Job 16:17,21 These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God. . . .

Job 23:4-7 I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints. . . .

Job 27:5 God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

Job 31:31-37 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? . . .

Job 40:2,4,5,8 Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him. . . .

1 John 3:20 For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.

maintain.

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
14Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands? 15Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.16And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.…
Cross References
Job 7:6
My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Job 13:3
But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 27:5
God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

Jonah 2:1
Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah: and Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights.

Habakkuk 3:18
But I will rejoice in the Lord: and I will joy in God my Jesus.

Job 13:14
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