Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 13:21
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
i.e. Suspend my torments during the time of my pleading with thee, that my mind may be at liberty; and do not present thyself to me in terrible majesty, neither deal with me in rigorous justice; but hear me meekly, as one man heareth another, and plead with me upon those gracious terms wherewith thou usest to deal with mankind.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
21. (See on Job9:34 and see Ps 39:10).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Withdraw thine hand far from me,…. His afflicting hand, which pressed him; this he desires might be removed, or otherwise he could not have the command of himself, make use of his reasoning faculties, recollect his arguments, and give them in their due force and strength; for afflictions of body affect the soul and memory, understanding and judgment; this is one of the things he would have agreed unto before the dispute was entered on; the other follows:
and let not thy dread make me afraid; the terrors of his law, or the dreadful apprehensions of his wrath; he desires to be freed from all slavish fear of God, that now possessed his mind through the severity of his dispensations towards him, behaving as if he was his enemy; or he deprecates his appearance in any external visible way and manner, which might be frightening to him, and so hinder freedom of speech in his own defence; these two things are before requested, Job 9:34; which should they be granted, he proposes as follows.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(21) Withdraw thine hand far from me.That is, Cease to torture me bodily, and to terrify me mentally; let me at least have freedom from physical pain and the undue apprehension of Thy terrors.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
21. Thy dread Thy terror; “the terror of the Lord.” (2Co 5:11.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Ver. 21. Withdraw thy hand from me, and let not, &c. ] Neither afflict me nor frighten me. See the same request, Job 9:34 , and granted by God, Job 38:3 ; Job 40:7 . They must be very sorry prayers indeed that God will not hear, if they come from honest hearts: Psa 31:22 , “I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.” For the sense of this whole verse – See Trapp on “ Job 9:34 “
And let not thy dread make me afraid
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Withdraw: Job 10:20, Job 22:15-17
let not: Job 13:11, Job 33:7, Psa 119:120
Reciprocal: 1Ch 21:30 – he was afraid Job 22:10 – sudden Job 23:6 – plead Job 31:35 – General Job 40:2 – he that reproveth Psa 39:10 – Remove Lam 2:8 – he hath not Eze 20:22 – I withdrew
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
13:21 {k} Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
(k) He shows what these two things are.