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Job Prepares His Case

Job 13:19

In 11 translations

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.
LSV
Who [is] he that strives with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
YLT
Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
DBY
Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
DRC
Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?
GNV
Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
JPS
Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.
LXXE
For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?

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Original-language editions

WLC
מִי־ה֭וּא יָרִ֣יב עִמָּדִ֑י כִּֽי־עַתָּ֖ה אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ וְאֶגְוָֽע׃
LXX-Br
Τίς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κριθησόμενός μοι, ὅτι νῦν κωφεύσω καὶ ἐκλείψω;

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◆ Job's Trial

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 50:7–8Because 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. The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us…
  • Jeremiah 20:9If 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.
  • Job 13:13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
  • Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 33:32But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
  • Job 33:5–7Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me. I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay. Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
  • Job 19:5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
  • Romans 8:33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
  • Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

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