Job 13:19
Good News Translation
Are you coming to accuse me, God? If you do, I am ready to be silent and die.

New Revised Standard Version
Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

Contemporary English Version
If you can prove me guilty, I will give up and die.

New American Bible
If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and expire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?

that will plead

Job 19:5 But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.

Job 33:5-7,32 If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face. . . .

Isaiah 50:7,8 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded. . . .

Romans 8:33 Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

if I hold

Job 13:13 Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

Job 7:11 Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
18If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just. 19Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?20Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:…
Cross References
Job 7:21
Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

Job 10:8
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?

Job 13:20
Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:

Isaiah 50:8
He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.

Job 13:18
Top of Page
Top of Page