Job 13:13 says, Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.  Job wanted to have his say, then he was content to submit to the will of God.  If we are suffering in life, we may want to voice our concerns, to those around us or to God.  I don't believe there is anything wrong with this, as long as we willingly submit to God's will, no matter the outcome.  Verse fourteen adds, Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?  Job said his suffering was so great that he basically felt like chewing his flesh to get relief.  Hopefully, we will never find ourselves that desperate, but if we were to, then we still need to put our faith in God.  Verse fifteen continues, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.  Job said his faith in God would not fail, even if he died.  This tells us that Job did not consider physical death as the end of life.  When Job said that he would maintain his ways before God, I believe he meant the way that he had lived his life.  Job was not saying that he would stand un-condemned by his own goodness, but that he had honestly attempted to live by his faith in God.  Verse sixteen declares, He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.  Job was once again looking beyond this life and saying that God would provide Job's salvation in the life to come.  Job also answered his friends claims that he was a hypocrite by reminding them that a hypocrite could not stand before God.  If we serve God only for material reasons, and not from a spiritual relationship with Him, then we ultimately will be proven to be a hypocrite, and we will not be able to stand before God.  Verse seventeen adds, Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.  Job was once more asking his friends to really understand what he was saying.  If we come into a situation with preconceived ideas, then sometimes it is very hard to hear what is being said to us.  Verse eighteen continues, Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.  Job said he had presented his case, so to speak, and that he knew one day he would be justified.  This was not because of self-righteousness, but because of the righteous of God.  We can only stand justified before God because He has redeemed us through Christ.  Verse nineteen states, Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.  I believe that Job was looking for any of his friends to stand by him in what he was saying.  It may be that in life we sometimes can find no one to stand by us as we live by faith in God, but if we do not proclaim His truth, then we might as well give up the ghost, as Job said.  Verse twenty adds, Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.  Job only asked two things of God, and neither had to do with material things.  When we stand before God, there will be nothing material that matters, but only the spiritual things.  Verse twenty-one continues, Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.  Job asked God to not abandon him and to not make him be afraid of God.  We know that as followers of Christ God will never abandon us nor should we ever be afraid of God.  Though we may hear the expression that God is out to get you, He is really only ever out to redeem and sustain us.  Verse twenty-two says, Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.  Job wanted to communicate with God, to once again feel that closeness.  When we are in distress, that is what we need more than anything, that communication with God.  We can be sure that God hears us.  Verse twenty-three adds, How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.  Job was once more asking that God reveal his sin if he was guilty of sin.  Job knew that his three friends could not tell him how he had sinned, but if he had sinned, only God could tell him how he had.  Sin is always between God and an individual, an no one else can truly determine if another individual is guilty of sin or not, especially based on material things.  Verse twenty-four continues, Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?  Job was still feeling abandoned by God and given over to God's enemy.  I guess in material terms we could say that was true, but spiritually God was still with Job.  Verse twenty-five asks, Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?  I believe Job was saying he felt lifeless and without direction and wondered how long God would allow him to continue in this state.  Verse twenty-six adds, For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.  Job felt that God was treating him badly and spoke of the inequities of his youth.  Job did not claim to have always been perfect, but I believe that he felt that his youthful iniquities had been forgiven.  We can be certain that once our sins are forgiven that God will not bring them up again.  Verse twenty-seven continues, Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.  Verse twenty-eight concludes, And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.  I believe that Job was saying that God had imprisoned him in a worthless state, with his body being eaten away.  We have to acknowledge that even if life seems hopeless, as followers of Christ we will never be without hope.