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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Who can argue with me over this? And if you prove me wrong, I will remain silent and die.

Context of Job 13:19

17Listen carefully to what I say; let my words ring in your ears. 18Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated. Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die. 20“Only grant me these two things, God, and then I will not hide from you: 21Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.

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 use my humiliation against me,
• Job 33:5Answer me then, if you can; stand up and argue your case before me.
• Isaiah 50:7Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.
• Romans 8:33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
• Job 13:13“Keep silent and let me speak; then let come to me what may.
• Job 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
• Jeremiah 20:9But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

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