Job 13:19
What does Job 13:19 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 13:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Who <FI>is<Fi> he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.
- Job 10:8
Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
- 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.
- Job 33:5
If thou canst, answer thou me; Setthy wordsin order before me, stand forth.
- Isaiah 50:7
For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
- Romans 8:33
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth;
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