Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 13:15

"Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him." — Job 13:15 (ASV)

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. —This rendering is almost proverbial; but, to say the least, its accuracy is very doubtful, for the better reading does not warrant it, but reads as follows: Behold He will slay me. I have no hope; yet will I maintain my ways before Him. It is true we therefore lose a very beautiful and familiar resolve; but the expression of living trust is not less vivid. For though there is, as there can be, no gleam of hope for victory in this conflict, yet, notwithstanding, Job will not forgo his conviction of integrity; for the voice of conscience is the voice of God, and if he knows himself to be innocent, he would belie and dishonor God as well as himself in renouncing his innocence.