Job 13:19
17 Listen carefully to my words; let my declaration ring in your ears.
18 Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated.
Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
20 Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:
21 Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
- KJV
- Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
- WEB
- Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.
- ASV
- Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
- DARBY
- Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
- BLB
- Who [is] he [who] will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
- ÅB
- Hvem er den som vil gå i rette med meg? Ja, da vil jeg tie og oppgi ånden.
- OTB
- Hvem vil argumentere mot meg?
For da ville jeg være stille og omkomme. - B1930
- Hvem er den som vil gå i rette med mig? Ja, da vil jeg tie og opgi ånden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 50:7–8
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.
Read in contextJob 33:32
But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
Read in contextJob 10:8
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
Read in contextJob 13:13
Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
Read in contextJob 33:5–7
Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
Read in contextJob 19:5
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
Read in contextJob 7:11
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.
Read in contextRomans 8:33
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
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