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; let your ears be attentive to my explanation. 18See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right. Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die. 20Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face: 21Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

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 19:5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
• Job 33:5Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
• Isaiah 50:7But the sovereign Lord helps me, so I am not humiliated. For that reason I am steadfastly resolved; I know I will not be put to shame.
• Romans 8:33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
• Job 13:13“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.
• Job 7:11“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
• Jeremiah 20:9Sometimes I think, “I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more.” But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain 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