Job 13:19
Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.
Bible in Basic English
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 put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.
20Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:
Cross References
Job 10:8Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
Job 19:5If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
Job 33:32If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.
Isaiah 50:8He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
Jeremiah 20:9And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.
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 →