Job 13:13 · World English Bible
Job 13:13 Meaning Be Silent
Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
What does Job 13:13 mean?
" It is the end of your quarrel with life, the moment you stop bracing against whatever the next hour may bring. Most suffering comes not from events themselves but from the mind's resistance to them, its demand that this moment be other than it is.
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There is great freedom hidden in "let come on me what will." It is the end of your quarrel with life, the moment you stop bracing against whatever the next hour may bring. Most suffering comes not from events themselves but from the mind's resistance to them, its demand that this moment be other than it is.
To say "let come what will" is to lay that resistance down. And the wish for others to hold their peace is the same movement turned inward: quiet the commentary and something deeper can be heard. When you fully accept what comes, life stops being a battle, because you are no longer fighting the present moment.
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Live Job 13:13 today
- Pick one thing today you have been silently arguing with, the weather, your commute, a body that aches, and say to yourself, fine, this is how today is. Then go on with the day and see what that frees up.
- When someone cancels on you or changes the plan, skip the internal protest and just ask what works now. You will be surprised how much energy the protest was taking.
- Stuck in traffic or a slow line, drop the clenching in your shoulders and let the time pass as it is passing. You are not getting there faster by hating the delay.
What are you braced against right now that has not even happened yet?
The same truth in other traditions
Stoicism · Epictetus
Do not demand that things happen as you wish. Wish them to happen as they do, and your life becomes calm instead of a long argument.
Tao Te Ching
Water does not fight the shape of the riverbed, and that is exactly why nothing can stop it. Yielding is not weakness, it is how the strongest thing in nature moves.
Buddhism
The second arrow is the one you shoot yourself. The first is the pain that arrives, the second is your refusal to let it have arrived.
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