Job 13:19
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Job 13:19 in other translations
| BSB | Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die. |
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| WEB | Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit. |
| ASV | Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost. |
| YLT | Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp. |
| DARBY | Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire. |
| BBE | Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath. |
| Webster | Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire. |
What does Job 13:19 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 13:13-22
Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Temporal salvation he little expected, but of his eternal salvation he was very confident; that God would not only be his Saviour to make him happy, but his salvation, in the sight and enjoyment of whom he should be happy. He knew…
Job 13:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 13:19
- Isaiah 50:7-8
For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
- Job 33:32
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
- Job 10:8
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
- Job 13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
- Job 33:5-7
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up. Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay. Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
- Job 19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
- Job 7:11
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- Romans 8:33
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
- Jeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
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Context
- Job 13:18
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
- Job 13:19
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
- Job 13:20
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Job 13:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Quién es el que pleiteará conmigo? porque si ahora yo callara, fenecería. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Qui est celui qui contestera avec moi? Car maintenant, si je me taisais, j’expirerais. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wer ist es, der mit mir rechten könnte? Denn dann wollte ich schweigen und verscheiden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quis est qui judicetur mecum? veniat: quare tacens consumor? |