Job 13:13
Good News Translation
Be quiet and give me a chance to speak, and let the results be what they will.

New Revised Standard Version
“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

Contemporary English Version
Be quiet while I speak, and we'll see what happens.

New American Bible
Be silent! Let me alone that I may speak, no matter what happens to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

Hold your peace.

Job 13:5 And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

Job 7:11 Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 21:3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

and let come

Job 6:9,10 And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off? . . .

Job 7:15,16 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death. . . .

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
12Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay. 13Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.14Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?…
Cross References
Job 13:5
And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

Job 13:12
Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

Job 13:12
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