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Job 13:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid. "
Job 13:21
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.
20 “Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
21 withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
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Job 13:1
"“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it."
Job 13:2
"What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you."
Job 13:3
"“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God."
Job 13:4
"But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value."
Job 13:5
"Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise."
Job 13:6
"Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips."
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