Job 13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
In Context
18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
20“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
Cross References
Job 10:8“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
Job 19:5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
Job 33:32If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
Isaiah 50:8He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Jeremiah 20:9If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.
Matthew Henry on Job 13:14-23
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 16 He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him. 17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I… Read the whole commentary →