Job 13:19

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. Hear what I have to say. 18I know what I want to say. I am ready to explain why I am not guilty. Nobody can show that I have done wrong things. If anyone can do that, I will be quiet. I will be ready to die. 20God, please do two things that will help me. If you do those things, I will no longer hide from you. 21Please stop punishing me. And stop causing me to be so afraid of you.

Job 13:19 word by word

מִי־ה֭וּא יָרִ֣יב עִמָּדִ֑י כִּֽי־עַתָּ֖ה אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ וְאֶגְוָֽע׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• will pleadרִיבrîyb rûb · to contendH7378
• with me? for now, if I hold my tongueחָרֵשׁchârash · be quietH2790
• I shall give up the ghostגָּוַעgâva‛ · to dieH1478

Cross-references for Job 13:19

• Job 19:5You think that you are better people than I am. Because I have all these troubles, you say that I must be guilty.
• Job 33:5Answer me now, Job, if you can. Prepare yourself. Be ready to explain your problem to me.
• Isaiah 50:7The Almighty Lord helps me, so I will not be ashamed. I have decided to stand and be strong, because I know that I will not be ashamed.
• Romans 8:33Nobody can say that God's people are guilty. God himself has accepted us as right with him.
• Job 13:13So be quiet now and let me speak. Then we will see what happens to me.
• Job 7:11So I must continue to speak. I will tell you how upset I am. I am angry because of what has happened to me. So I must complain.
• Jeremiah 20:9Sometimes I think, ‘I will say nothing about the Lord or his message.’ But then his message burns like a fire inside me. It gives me pain in my mind and my body. I cannot keep his message to myself. I have to speak it.

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

Topics related to Job 13:19

• Reasoning
• Self-Righteousness

In the dictionaries

• Dread
• Motheaten
• Spend
• Value
• Ghost
• How
• Plead

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