Job 13:19
I certainly do not think [RHQ] that you or anyone else will say that what I say is not true; if anyone did that, I would ◄be silent/stop talking► and die.
Translation for Translators
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
18I am ready to prove that I am innocent, and I know that you also will declare that I am not guilty.
Cross References
Job 10:8“'With your hands you created me and shaped/formed my body; but now you are deciding that you should not have done that, and you are destroying me.
Job 19:5If you truly think that you are better than I am, and you think that my being miserable now proves that I ◄am guilty/have committed many sins►,
Job 33:32After I speak, if you have something more that you want to say to me, say it, because I would like to find a way to declare that you ◄are innocent/have not done what is wrong►.
Isaiah 50:8God, the one who vindicates me, is near to me; so if anyone [RHQ] stands in front of me and accuses me in a court, he will not be able to show that I have done anything that is wrong.
Jeremiah 20:9But if I would say, ‘I will never mention Yahweh or say anything about him, [MTY]’ it would be as though your message would burn in my inner being like [SIM] a fire; it would be like a fire in my bones. Sometimes I try to remain silent and not proclaim your messages, but I am not able to do that.
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 →