Job 13:18
Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
In Context
17Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
19Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.
Cross References
Job 9:2Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?
Job 16:21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!
Job 33:9I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Isaiah 43:26Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set thou forth [thy case] that thou may be justified.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.
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 →