Job 13:19
Who is it that shall contend with me? For, now, if I should hold my peace, why! I should breathe my last!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
18Lo! I pray you, I have set forth in order a plea, I know that, I, shall be found right.
20Only, two things, do thou not with me, then, from thy face, will I not hide me:—
Cross References
Job 10:8Thine own hands, shaped me, and made me, all in unison round about, and yet thou hast confounded me.
Job 19:5If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
Job 33:32If there is anything to say, reply to me, Speak, for I desire to justify thee;
Isaiah 50:8At hand, is one who can justify me. Who will contend with me? let, us stand forth together,—Who can accuse me? let him draw near to me!
Jeremiah 20:9Therefore I say—I will not mention him Neither will I speak any more in his name, But then it becometh in my heart as a fire that burneth, Shut up in my bones,—And I am weary of restraint and cannot refrain.
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 →