Berean Standard Bible
Job 13:19
19Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
Job 13:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
- New International Version (NIV)Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I perish.
Context of Job 13:19
17Listen carefully to my words; let my declaration ring in your ears. 18See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated. Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die. 20Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You: 21Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
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מִי־ה֭וּא יָרִ֣יב עִמָּדִ֑י כִּֽי־עַתָּ֖ה אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ וְאֶגְוָֽע׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 13:19
- Job 19:5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
- Job 33:5Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
- Isaiah 50:7Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
- Romans 8:33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
- Job 13:13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
- Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- 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.
Commentaries on Job 13:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Who is he that will plead with me? - Let my accuser, the plaintiff, come forward; I will defend my cause against him. I shall give up the ghost - I shall cease to breathe. Defending myself will be as respiration unto me; or, While he is stating his case, I will be so silent as scarcely to appear to breathe.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19Who is he that will plead with me? - That is, “who is there now that will take up the cause, and enter into an argument against me? I have set my cause before God. I appeal now to all to take up the argument against me, and have no fear if they do as to the result. I am confident of a sucessful issue, and await calmly the divine adjudication.” For now, if I hold my tongue I shall give up the ghost - This translation, in my view, by no means expresses the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-22Verses 13-22 Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Temporal salvation he little expected, but of his eternal salvation he was very confident; that God would not only be his Saviour to make him happy, but his salvation, in the sight and enjoyment of whom he should be happy. He knew himself not to be a…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. if, &c.--Rather, "Then would I hold my tongue and give up the ghost"; that is, if any one can contend with me and prove me false, I have no more to say. "I will be silent and die." Like our "I would stake my life on it" [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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