Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die. New Living Translation Who can argue with me over this? And if you prove me wrong, I will remain silent and die. English Standard Version Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. Berean Standard Bible Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die. King James Bible Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. New King James Version Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I perish. New American Standard Bible “Who could contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. NASB 1995 “Who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. NASB 1977 “Who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. Legacy Standard Bible Who will contend with me? For now I am silent and will breathe my last. Amplified Bible “Who will argue and contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. Christian Standard Bible Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die. Holman Christian Standard Bible Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die. American Standard Version Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Who is he that contends with me? For now I shall be silent and be at rest Brenton Septuagint Translation For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire? Contemporary English Version If you can prove me guilty, I will give up and die. Douay-Rheims Bible Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace? English Revised Version Who is he that will contend with me? for now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost. GOD'S WORD® Translation Who can make a case against me? If someone could, I'd be silent and die. Good News Translation Are you coming to accuse me, God? If you do, I am ready to be silent and die. International Standard Version Who can oppose me? If they do, I'll be silent and die. JPS Tanakh 1917 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die. Literal Standard Version Who [is] he that strives with me? For now I keep silent and gasp. Majority Standard Bible Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die. New American Bible If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and expire. NET Bible Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die. New Revised Standard Version Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. New Heart English Bible Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. Webster's Bible Translation Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire. World English Bible Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. Young's Literal Translation Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Reproves His Friends…18Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated. 19Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die. 20Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:… Cross References Job 7:21 Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more." Job 9:3 If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand. Job 10:8 Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me? Job 13:20 Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You: Isaiah 50:8 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! Treasury of Scripture Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. that will plead Job 19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: Job 33:5-7,32 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up… Isaiah 50:7,8 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed… if I hold Job 13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 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 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. Jump to Previous Able Argument Breath Charges Contend Contendeth Die Expire Gasp Ghost Hold Peace Plead Quiet Silent Spirit Strive TongueJump to Next Able Argument Breath Charges Contend Contendeth Die Expire Gasp Ghost Hold Peace Plead Quiet Silent Spirit Strive TongueJob 13 1. Job reproves his friends for partiality14. He professes his confidence in God; 19. and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him (19) If I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.--A marvellous confession, equivalent to, "If I give up my faith in Him who is my salvation, and my personal innocence, which goes hand-in-hand therewith, I shall perish. To give up my innocence is to give up Him in whom I hold my innocence, and in whom I live."Verse 19. - Who is he that will plead with me? Will God himself plead? Or will he depute some one, man or angel? Job is impatient that the pleadings should begin. For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. Some translate, "For now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost," which they explain to mean, "If God does implead me, I shall take refuge in silence, and straightway expire." But this seems an impossible conclusion, when all that Job has been aiming at and striving for since his opponents taxed him with wickedness has been that he might "speak to the Almighty, and reason with God" (ver. 3). It is far simpler to keep to the translation of the Authorized Version, and understand Job to mean that things have now reached a point at which he must either speak or expire. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Can anyoneמִי־ (mî-) Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix indict יָרִ֣יב (yā·rîḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7378: To toss, grapple, to wrangle, controversy, to defend me? עִמָּדִ֑י (‘im·mā·ḏî) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's 5978: Against, by, from, me, mine, of, that I take, unto, If כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction so, עַתָּ֖ה (‘at·tāh) Adverb Strong's 6258: At this time I will be silent אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ (’a·ḥă·rîš) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise and die. וְאֶגְוָֽע׃ (wə·’eḡ·wā‘) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 1478: To breathe out, expire Links Job 13:19 NIVJob 13:19 NLT Job 13:19 ESV Job 13:19 NASB Job 13:19 KJV Job 13:19 BibleApps.com Job 13:19 Biblia Paralela Job 13:19 Chinese Bible Job 13:19 French Bible Job 13:19 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 13:19 Who is he who will contend (Jb) |
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