Job 13:19
Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
18If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.
20Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:
Cross References
Job 10:8Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?
Job 19:5But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
Job 33:32But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak : for I would have thee to appear just.
Isaiah 50:8He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
Jeremiah 20:9Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear 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 →