Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 38:15

"Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me." — Jeremiah 38:15 (ASV)

Will you not surely put me to death? —The prophet obviously speaks as if he believed the king to have sanctioned the severe measures that had been taken against him, and having no other “word of the Lord” to speak than that which he had spoken before, fears to provoke his wrath. The latter part of the sentence is better taken with the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Luther, “you will not listen to me”; or the form of the question altered so as to imply that answer.