Job 13:19 “Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.”

Job 13:19

Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

World English Bible

Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.

American Standard Version

Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

Geneva Bible 1599

Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.

Darby Translation

Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.

Young's Literal Translation

Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.

Bible in Basic English

Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

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Cross references

“that will plead”

Job 19:5 Job 33:5–7 Job 33:32 Romans 8:33 Isaiah 50:7 Isaiah 50:8

Job 19:5 · BSB

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

Job 33:5–7 · BSB

Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.

Job 33:32 · BSB

But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.

Romans 8:33 · BSB

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

Isaiah 50:7 · BSB

Because 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.

Isaiah 50:8 · BSB

The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!

“if I hold”

Job 13:13 Job 7:11 Jeremiah 20:9

Job 13:13 · BSB

Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

Job 7:11 · BSB

Therefore 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 20:9 · BSB

If 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.

Also

Job 10:8

Job 10:8 · BSB

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.

20Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:

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