Job 13:18
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I am righteous.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
In Context
17Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
19Who is he that will contend with me? for now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
Cross References
Job 9:2Of a truth I know that it is so: but how can man be just with God?
Job 16:21That he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbour!
Job 33:9I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
Isaiah 43:26Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth thy cause, that thou mayest be justified.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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 →