Job 13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.
A Conservative Version
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
18Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.
20Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
Cross References
Job 10:8Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me.
Job 19:5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
Job 33:32If thou have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Isaiah 50:8He is near who justifies me. Who will content with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Jeremiah 20:9And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot.
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 →