What Does Job 13:22 Mean?

“Then call”

to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

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“thou and I will answer”

properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,

desire (and so probably in proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if

“or let me speak”

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

“and answer”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);