Job 13:19
Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
Majority Standard Bible
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 prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.
20Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:
Cross References
Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
Job 19:5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
Job 33:32But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
Isaiah 50:8The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!
Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
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 →