The Meaning of Job 13:6 Explained

Job 13:6

KJV: Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

YLT: Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

Darby: Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

ASV: Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 13:6?

MEANING: What does Job 13:6 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 13:6 mean?

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What is the context of Job 13:6?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

What does Job 13:6 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 13:1-28 - "though He Slay Me"

The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12. Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he was suffering, might be set down, Job 13:23.

When Job said that he knew himself to be righteous, he was clearly speaking of known sin; he knew, so far as a man may know himself, that he had not committed the sins of which his friends charged him. He could bare his life to the inspection of men and angels, being sure that no accusation of which human law-courts would take cognizance could be established against him. But this is a very different matter with the divine tribunal. When a fuller light had shone upon him from the face of God, when the patriarch had seen Him instead of merely hearing of Him by the ear, then he would "abhor himself and repent in dust and ashes," Job 42:5-6.

Job 13:15 is almost the greatest sentence ever uttered by mortal lips! Let us ask for grace to affirm it. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 13

¹ Job reproves his friends for partiality
¹⁴ He professes his confidence in God;
¹⁹ and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him

What do the individual words in Job 13:6 mean?

Hear now my reasoning and the pleadings of my lips heed

שִׁמְעוּ־ נָ֥א תוֹכַחְתִּ֑י וְרִב֖וֹת שְׂפָתַ֣י הַקְשִֽׁיבוּ

שִׁמְעוּ־	Hear
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine plural Root: שָׁמַע Sense: to hear, listen to, obey.
נָ֥א	now
Parse: Interjection Root: נָא Sense: I (we) pray, now, please.
תוֹכַחְתִּ֑י	my reasoning
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular Root: תֹּוכֵחָה Sense: rebuke, correction, reproof, punishment, chastisement.
וְרִב֖וֹת	and the pleadings
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct Root: רִיב Sense: strife, controversy, dispute.
שְׂפָתַ֣י	of my lips
Parse: Noun, fdc, first person common singular Root: שָׂפָה Sense: lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding.
הַקְשִֽׁיבוּ	heed
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperative, masculine plural Root: קָשַׁב Sense: to hear, be attentive, heed, incline (of ears), attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen.

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