Job 13:19
Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I keep silence, I must perish.
Leeser Tanakh
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 arrayed my cause: I know that I shall be indeed justified.
20Only two things do not unto me: then will I not hide myself from thy presence.
Cross References
Job 10:8Thy hands have carefully fashioned me and made me; every thing is in harmony all round about; and yet thou dost destroy me!
Job 19:5But if indeed ye wish to magnify yourselves above me, and to prove against me my disgrace:
Job 33:32If thou hast any words, answer me: speak, for I wish to justify thee.
Isaiah 50:8He that justifieth me is near; who will contend with me? let us stand forward together: who hath a dispute with me? let him come near to me.
Jeremiah 20:9And I thought, I will not make mention of him, and I will not speak any more in his name. But it became in my heart as a burning fire enclosed within my bones, and I was weary with enduring, and I could not overcome 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 →