Job 13:21
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.
Webster's Revision
Withdraw thy hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
World English Bible
withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Withdraw thine hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid.
Definitions for Job 13:21
Barnes's Job 13:21 Bible Commentary
Withdraw thine hand far from me - Notes Job 9:34. The hand of God here is used to denote the calamity or affliction which Job was suffering. The meaning is, "Remove my affliction; restore me to health, and I will then enter on the argument in vindication of my cause. I am now oppressed, and broken down, and enfeebled by disease, and I cannot present it with the vigor which I might evince if I were in health."
And let not thy dread make me afraid - "Do not so overpower me by thy severe majesty, that I cannot present my cause in a calm and composed manner." See the notes at Job 9:34. Job felt that God had power to overawe him, and he asked, therefore, that he might have a calm and composed mind, and then he would be able to do justice to his own cause.
Wesley's Job 13:21 Bible Commentary
13:21 Withdraw - Suspend my torments during the time of my pleading with thee, that my mind may be at liberty. Do not present thyself to me in terrible majesty, neither deal with me in rigorous justice.